Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 2 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 3 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 4 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 5 | You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures . |
| 6 | Gilbert White was proud of his early cucumbers , cutting the first of 1753 on 5th April to take to his brother in London and when he discovered they were priced two shillings apiece in Town , arranged for a further thirteen to be conveyed on the coach from Selborne . |
| 7 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 9 | No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , a firm of mechanical engineers , Hunter and English of Bow , inspected the model and reported favourably on the proposal in March 1897 , for which service they were paid 100 guineas . |
| 11 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 12 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 13 | We were all very friendly and nice and you made a big effort , Claudia darling , but I do n't think it was appreciated one bit . |
| 14 | Last month , the Post Office announced it was shedding 15,000 jobs . |
| 15 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 16 | In June , BAe Space Systems , a British Aerospace subsidiary that makes communication satellites , announced it was cutting 640 jobs as part of a rationalisation scheme . |
| 17 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 18 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 19 | I was thinking it was knit one purl one on the stitches you know , but mm . |
| 20 | I thought Val said he was having three days holiday ? |
| 21 | We 're talking about how much of the client 's premium , let's say he was paying thirty pounds a month , actually ends buying units in his fund . |