Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them .
2 When she 'd finished it was 17.31 and she almost pushed me out of the door .
3 The next youngest was 28 and he also had testicular cancer .
4 She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’
5 Mm , that one , I do n't know though did n't have a blonde woman see and I never , I did n't , I did n't realise there was two and I really did not and I suddenly there 's , they all come out on the ice
6 Her parents were a benign though distant presence and it was n't until Charles was seven that he actually sat down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining-room .
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