Example sentences of "that [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would take herself out to lunch and do some shopping , look for those new lampshades that were needed for one of the spare rooms . |
| 2 | They beat South Korea 4-3 in extra time to finish with the bronze medal and set off scenes of joyous celebration that were watched by millions on TV back home . |
| 3 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 4 | I have enough intelligence to go and look at graphs and look at charts and do my research and I see the turn that was made from 1979 to 1989 and I see the way things are in my country . |
| 5 | I 'd like to demonstrate this by reading a little bit from a letter that was sent to one of our members in this position . |
| 6 | It was job growth that was reduced after 1981 by the Conservative government 's imposition of cash limits on Health Authorities ( Table 5.8 ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 8 | It would be good for each of us to take time this week to thank God for the work of world mission that was revived in 1792 through the effort of William Carey and those around him . |