Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 2 | And they were anyhow so they had a brand new telly . |
| 3 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 4 | He took aim half-heartedly , but they were away before he even squeezed . |
| 5 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 6 | just to exist , was a very hard one , but they were home and many of those who lived in these remote parts had probably never been further away than the nearest celebration of Holy Communion . |
| 7 | But they were less than competent in certain areas . |
| 8 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 9 | And they 're no pendulum clocks there now but they were there when I was there . |