Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 2 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 3 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 4 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 5 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 6 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 7 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
| 8 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 9 | His 34 , though , was the best score of the day ( and he was dropped three times , at 17 , 19 and 25 ) as India declined to 135 for 5 ( Tendulkar 31 , nightwatchman Ruju 1 ) by the close , with the fiery Hughes taking three wickets . |
| 10 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 11 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 12 | But he was saved 12 hours later by fell rescuers who started a search after they found the man 's abandoned car . |