Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 2 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 3 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 4 | Well I was watching one of those Antique Road Shows quite recently and I found a chap got one of those little sort of two inch diameter one inch high chamber pots and he said and where did you get this and she said er at a car boot sale and he said and how much did you pay and she said twenty five P . |
| 5 | How glad I was to see one of her dogs lying outside the kitchen door ! |
| 6 | The following year I was refunded three and ninepence by his successor because I had been over-charged . |
| 7 | ‘ I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 10 | I was born two miles away . |
| 11 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 12 | By the way they they sank Gedling pit , they cut the first sod the year I was born nineteen oh two . |
| 13 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 14 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 15 | Indeed , since I was to lose one of mine , the kidney had become the most treasured and important of all my organs . |
| 16 | ‘ I was given two , and I was told by my nurse never to let them near the fire or they 'd melt . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I needed four ; two for the pram and two for the cot , and I was given two more . |
| 19 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 20 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 21 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 22 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 23 | At Christmas I was given one of Brynley 's old books with his name crossed out and a torch or a diary thrown in . |
| 24 | I was uttering three distinct syllables : Lei-ces-ter Square . |
| 25 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 26 | I mean we would n't of known , I never saw that erm , you know diamond thing with , four , I mean even then I when we bought them I was thinking four sixty fives , that 'll be two sixty and erm three sixty , so you save a bit really do n't you ? |
| 27 | We have a friendly hug and I tell her I was laying three places anyway . |
| 28 | In addition , I was to attend one of the national radiation protection study days and receive certification . |
| 29 | And I 've seen Trish , fortunately , I was hoping one of the physios would be in |
| 30 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |