Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’
2 So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars .
3 I felt I was running a 9,9 system ( see box ) , involving the team and getting the job done .
4 Lot number fifty four Lot fifty four copper bowl copper bowl showing for a hundred pounds , at one hundred and ten at a hundred and ten , twenty , thirty , forty , fifty sixty , seventy one eighty offered I 'm offered a hundred and eighty pounds , I shall sell for one eighty , one ninety going on sir ?
5 One seventy , one eighty one ninety offered I 'm offered a hundred and ninety pounds , have you all finished at one ninety ?
6 Off the shoreward side of the platform debris fell which was to form the two billion barrel Pozo Rica field .
7 But two days ago that appearent safety was threatened when a bogus health worker said she was making a four monthly check .
8 SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity .
9 Oh I think they said they were paying a hundred and ninety nine
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