Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we were playing three games every six days and that just does n't allow enough recovery time from injuries . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were having two sessions , afternoon and evening . |
| 3 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 4 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 5 | When the visas did come through they were dated 5 September . |
| 6 | Little danger as there was of another martyrdom , there was even less chance of the clergy satisfying their grievances at Edward 's expense : the most significant thing about the legislation of May 1341 is how easily it was repealed five months later . |
| 7 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |
| 8 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 9 | Tragically he was killed five days later in a third attempt . |
| 10 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 11 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 12 | Well they were knocking one night well gone twelve , about twenty to one I think it was , still banging and hammering , and I 'm sure if I rang him and said look you know pack it up this , he 'd , he 'd say oh I 'm sorry yeah and he will , but you should n't have to do that |
| 13 | Here they were committing two sins of omission — the failure to be indoors by 11 p.m. and the failure to notify the police of a change of address . |
| 14 | She heard his sigh , then he was raising one hand to the dark wealth of hair at the back of her head , drawing her face away from the warm sanctuary of his chest , ignoring her small whimper of protest as his lips descended on hers . |
| 15 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 16 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 17 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 18 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 19 | It happened before her mother 's death , when she was staying two weeks in the villa with her father . |
| 20 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 21 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | where my mum and dad live it 's not that bad an area yet they were burgled four times and that they get |
| 23 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 24 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 25 | , Sir Paul ( 1613–1685/6 ) , courtier , scientific patron , and founder member of the Royal Society , was born in Westminster , where he was baptized 11 May 1613 . |