Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 2 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 3 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 4 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 5 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 6 | There were two key components to this , there were things that er were labelled feature demons and there were things which were labelled cognitive demons . |
| 7 | Six nappies , even wet ones , did not weigh that much , and there were others who were willing to help . |
| 8 | Some wished to receive Communion in the parish church and there were others who wished to receive Communion from Methodist preachers . |
| 9 | And there were others who saw Chilperic 's rule as something new . |
| 10 | There were some people , some schools , who said ‘ yes , it 's absolutely vital , we just could not get on without it at all ’ and there were others who were questioning whether that was money spent the best way for special needs . |
| 11 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 12 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 13 | Dr Spock 's Baby And Child Care was published first in the United States in 1947 and in Britain in 1955 and there were mothers who boasted they had worn out several copies . |
| 14 | But , wrote Michael Ramsey in retrospect — it is his own but — ‘ he had wit and generosity and there were pupils who had deep affection for him . |
| 15 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 16 | ‘ Scotland was riding along fairly well and there were hopes it would be able to come through . |
| 17 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 18 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 19 | We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire . |
| 20 | She straightened sharply , and grinned at me , but her face was pale and there were shadows I had n't noticed a moment before . |
| 21 | There was Sammy and Davie and and er from Comely Bank , Willie and Jim they were all Stevedores and Andrew and They were stevedores you see a lot of . |
| 22 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 23 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 24 | Blake 's ideas achieved little currency until late in the century ; but there were others who , by a different route , were coming to hold a comparable view of youth and innocence . |
| 25 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 26 | He suffered defeat and banishment , but there were others who had to suffer it with him . |
| 27 | But there were exceptions : Gregory of Tours denied the claims of one would-be king called Munderic , who was crushed by Theuderic I. Chlothar I refused to acknowledge that Gundovald was his son , but there were others who thought that he was . |
| 28 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 29 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 30 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |