Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 2 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |
| 3 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 4 | Travis was quick to deny it with one of his charming smiles . |
| 5 | I returned to London , and was unable to find you until two hours ago . ’ |
| 6 | Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty . |
| 7 | We badly needed new hymns , more critically translated , and I , with a Burmese colleague , was able to add something like eighty new hymns . |
| 8 | For this reason Hakkio was obliged to limit himself to four lagged terms in equations ( 3.34 ) even when there was firm evidence of longer lags . |
| 9 | When the builders moved in , the authority found another house , and was ready to buy it for seventy thousand pounds , but again there were protests and the plan was scrapped . |