Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , tens of thousands of young city-dwellers , on bicycle or on foot , were enjoying their first taste of the countryside with the aid of the new network of youth hostels . |
| 2 | Most of the East Anglian ports were enjoying their first spell of prosperity for many years , employment and trade was booming in the area and more customs staff were required at King 's Lynn , Ipswich and Felixstowe , my old home and a natural first choice . |
| 3 | In 1979 , British voters were given their first opportunity to elect representatives . |
| 4 | At these concerts many of Bach 's symphonies , concertos , cantatas , chamber works , and keyboard sonatas were given their first performances . |
| 5 | These were given their first test run and enthused about by the audiences for Wuthering Heights a very worthwhile investment . |
| 6 | In Bartlett v. Sydney Marcus ( 1965 C.A. ) the seller , a car dealer , told the buyer that the car had a defective clutch and that if he bought it as it was he could have it for £550 but that if the seller were to repair it first , the price would be £575 . |
| 7 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 8 | Boro had fallen behind to a fourth minute penalty on a ground where they were seeking their first win since 1938 . |
| 9 | By 1805 the firm of Boulton & Watt were selling their first commercial gas plants . |
| 10 | At the start of a special mass , even the monastery bellringers were celebrating his 100th birthday . |
| 11 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 12 | On our journey back home , we were to do one last activity , either ten pin bowling or white water rafting . |
| 13 | Some were getting their first experience of Wombat , the anti-tank gun which is issued along with Milan missiles to anti-tank platoons in Berlin battalions : the battalion moves to Berlin in 1990 for two-and-a-half years . |
| 14 | They had bought their first house and were expecting their first baby . |
| 15 | My husband Peter and I started our collection when we were expecting our first child in 1945 . |
| 16 | Among the million and a half dispatched from urban Britain into the countryside were between two to three thousand refugee children who were experiencing their second dramatic upheaval within months . |
| 17 | Most of the Marines were experiencing their first combat , and the strain of combating the fear as much as their enemies was telling on their pale faces . |
| 18 | A few pints later , when the Vomits were doing their first encore , Jamie and I were up dancing , jumping up and down , Jamie shouting and clapping his hands and dancing about on my shoulders . |
| 19 | We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . |
| 20 | But there was disappointment for Britain with the men 's lightweight four of Christopher Bates , Carl Smith , Thomas Kay and Toby Hessian , who were chasing their third successive world gold . |
| 21 | If I were to approach my sixth criterion I needed to find someone who knew their way round an oscilloscope , and it was n't until the mid-1980s that a bright , if somewhat cranky , scuba-diving enthusiast arrived on campus to do a PhD . |
| 22 | Many of the Kiwis were playing their first rugby for several weeks , and in the early part of the game it showed . |
| 23 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 24 | The only heavy defeat was at Newington , who were playing their ninth match in six weeks , as opposed to the tourists , who were commencing their season . |
| 25 | It happened as the world-famous Falcons skydiving team were making their first display jump of the season , watched by more than two hundred schoolchildren . |
| 26 | When we first met , you were making your second Berlin cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies . |
| 27 | They were to spend their last days there with her aunt Nicolette 's family in Neuilly where they had just moved . |
| 28 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 29 | On 24 May they were given yet another destination — Hazenbrouck , in the S-W corner of the semi-circle round Dunkirk where the 1st Bucks were to make their last stand . |
| 30 | Portsmouth , leading through a goal from Anderton , were contemplating their first visit to Wembley since the Spring of 1939 . |