Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cameraman and sound recordist were mugged on their last day in Pittsburgh . |
| 2 | Forty two patients from this group were diagnosed in their seventh decade and beyond and form the basis of this study . |
| 3 | Confusion over whether Mr Robert Maxwell , publisher of Mirror Group Newpapers , also had reservations were dismissed by him last night . |
| 4 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 5 | The question of a regional convention in this whole field was put on the agenda of the Committee in 1975 and detailed reports were considered at its Twentieth Session in 1979 and its Twenty-Second Session in 1981 . |
| 6 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 7 | Let me ask er let me ask Robert over here now Robert , er I see here it tells me that you were separated from Alison , Alison your first wife , er let me get this microphone right , you were separated from your first wife , this is your second wife , you were separated from your first wife er and I understand it was a clean break , it was a clean break with a court settlement ? |
| 8 | Let me ask er let me ask Robert over here now Robert , er I see here it tells me that you were separated from Alison , Alison your first wife , er let me get this microphone right , you were separated from your first wife , this is your second wife , you were separated from your first wife er and I understand it was a clean break , it was a clean break with a court settlement ? |
| 9 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 10 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 11 | Old and young were attended to their last resting place by those who had loved them , and slept in churchyards adjoining the fields where in life they had played or ploughed . |
| 12 | ( ‘ Julian ’ and the hyphenated surname were adopted before his first marriage . ) |
| 13 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 14 | Readers in the know were rewarded with their fifth payout in a fortnight at Wetherby yesterday when the suggested eight point stake produced a dividend of £135.40 to a £1 unit . |
| 15 | The marriage was a happy one and when Carol was 24 the couple were blessed with their first child , Kylie Ann . |
| 16 | The crowd were getting at them last night . |
| 17 | Yo you know the numbers that were allocated to you last time . |
| 18 | Of marriages that took place in 1951 , 10% had ended in divorce by 25 years , in contrast 10% of couples who married in 1971 were divorced by their 6th wedding anniversary and of those married in 1981 , 10% had divorced within 4.5 years . |
| 19 | Clients were known by their first names only . |
| 20 | They were dancing for you last night . |
| 21 | These were followed by her first novel , A Sussex Idyll ( 1877 ) , and a three-volume novel , Orlando ( 1879 ) . |
| 22 | Some play activities , suitable for primary age children , were illustrated in my last chapter ; more explicit knowledge about language , appropriate to the secondary curriculum , is discussed here . |
| 23 | The first nine were reissued earlier and were welcomed by me last October . |
| 24 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 25 | The research , commissioned by the Scottish Office , found that few children were tested in their first language or given access to interpreters , or had their bilingual and cultural backgrounds taken into account before they were put in special schools . |
| 26 | England women 's team were beaten in their first match , 3–0 by Yugoslavia . |