Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 2 | He later admitted he had provided an affidavit for Clarke , who escaped from the Maze prison where he was serving 18 years for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 3 | Nick Moore first wrote to me from Ashwell prison , Leics , in January , where he was serving seven years — for building society robberies in Derby . |
| 4 | Over in Ireland Jim Dreaper gave Carvill 's Hill his seasonal debut in the Durkan Brothers International Punchestown Chase , where he was beaten three lengths by last season 's Irish Grand National winner Maid Of Money , who was receiving 5lb and started favourite . |
| 5 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 6 | He was also closely associated with the work of George Devine and Tony Richardson at the Royal Court Theatre where he was to design 17 productions , starting with Look Back in Anger in 1956 . |
| 7 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 8 | He possessed a house in Twickenham in addition to his official residence in the palace of Westminster , but his principal seat was in Eydon , Northamptonshire , where he was buried 8 June 1691 . |
| 9 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 10 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 11 | , Matthew ( 1753–1781 ) , engineer and inventor , was born at 3 Narrow Wine Street , Bristol , where he was baptized 18 November 1753 , the son of Mary and William Wasbrough , originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker , who was in partnership with Roger Rice in a brass-founding and clock-making business in Narrow Wine Street . |
| 12 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 13 | Lily had told her , she hoped tactfully , that she was asking six girls from the show to be her attendants . |
| 14 | Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe . |
| 15 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 16 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 17 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 18 | Luke made the word sound like an oath , and Folly had the curious feeling that they were having two conversations at once — and only one of them was about ancient history . |
| 19 | Either the US could allow themselves to be convinced that they were fighting one war , in Vietnam and Korea ; that with practically unlimited US military and economic assistance the French could defeat the main Vietminh forces in Tonkin ; and that revolution or insurgency could be contained in the rest of the country . |
| 20 | Although he was born seventy-one years ago in New York , not Greece , Theodoros Stamos feels the pull of his Greek heritage with the force of the tides in the wine-dark sea . |
| 21 | ( There is a record of a complaint by an inmate of a workhouse elsewhere , that although he was paying six shillings a week for his maintenance , he had to do work such as window-cleaning and blacking grates . |
| 22 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 23 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 24 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 25 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 26 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 27 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 28 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 29 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 30 | A rumour that he was casting 100 children went round St James 's School in Church Street , so instead of going straight home the girl pupils nipped off to the audition . |