Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio cassettes worth £325 and £80 were taken from two cars in Benton Close , and an attempt was made to get into a third car in the street . |
| 2 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 3 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 4 | Nicandra was standing waiting for a second turn at her reflection , her attitude a droop of pure unhappiness . |
| 5 | Hulme did n't get his weekend , and was ordered to train for a third team match the following Wednesday . |