Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [num] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She understood — mainly because she was only twenty-six and already had four children and another on the way . |
| 2 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 3 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 4 | The lorry-driver was about forty and powerfully built . |
| 5 | He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed . |