Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [be] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 2 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 3 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 4 | She was n't good at ages , but she judged him to be about twenty-four . |
| 5 | I guessed her to be about twenty-two or three . |
| 6 | Evelyn reckoned him to be about twenty-six if you allowed for the drink . |
| 7 | I reckoned it to be about nine months , so I asked him how long it had been . |
| 8 | She thought him to be about sixty . |
| 9 | She supposed her to be about twelve or thirteen . |