Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 2 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 3 | Jayne Mansfield 's were insured for a million dollars . |
| 4 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 5 | His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock ; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist . |
| 6 | ‘ I was attacked by a dozen vagabonds two miles from here . |
| 7 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 8 | The dresser was crammed with a thousand things beside plates , old envelopes and letters , mousetraps , rags , pipes and screws of black tobacco in papers , and every chair was heaped with clothing , shirts and coats and cloaks . |
| 9 | It fitted like a jigsaw but her heart was fragmented into a thousand pieces . |
| 10 | Back home , the back seat was replaced with an eighty litres fuel tank . |
| 11 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 12 | And his public relations value to greyhound racing was estimated at a million pounds . |
| 13 | Susan , 43 , was chosen from a dozen contenders . |