Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the peak year of 1913 , these stations between them were receiving 5,791,700 tonnes of goods . |
| 2 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 3 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 4 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 5 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 6 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 7 | However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded . |
| 8 | Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year . |
| 9 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 10 | Both of them were discharged two years later . |
| 11 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 12 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 13 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 14 | Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible . |
| 15 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 16 | All of us were checking new bands out the whole time . |
| 17 | Against them were marshalled industrial capital in coal mining , shipping and shipbuilding led by the great radical ( Karl Marx 's description ) Joseph Cowen . |
| 18 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 19 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
| 20 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 21 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 22 | When the passes were found , each was enclosed in an envelope with a first class frank and a recorded delivery sticker ; the covering letter inside mine was dated 18 September . |
| 23 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 24 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 25 | After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink . |
| 26 | To them was born another child , Malekith , who was to become the most hated of Elves . |
| 27 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 28 | And so Mr. Green , I think it was Chris Green , had to he was chairing that meeting and had a double vote . |
| 29 | So that is the position as it was agreed last time and this report really says that . |