Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 2 | An industrial tribunal in Liverpool heard that Fiona Shearer , 23 , and her boyfriend Kenneth Dodd , 29 , were dismissed five days after the private bash on August 28 last year . |
| 3 | An industrial tribunal in Liverpool heard that Fiona Shearer , 23 , and her boyfriend Kenneth Dodd , 29 , were dismissed five days after the private bash last August . |
| 4 | For protein extraction , cells were washed five times with ice-cold PBS and collected into a buffer containing 10mM Tris-Cl pH8.0 , 10mM KCl , 1.5mM MgCl 2 , and the protease inhibitors antipain ( 50μgml r-1 ) , aprotinin ( 10μgml r-1 ) , benzamidine ( 310μgml r-1 ) , leupeptin ( 5μgml r-1 ) , pepstatin A ( 5μgml r-1 ) and phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride ( 175μgml r-1 ) . |
| 5 | We were divorced five years later . |
| 6 | Then the coffins , each carrying a single yellow rose , were driven five miles to the cemetery at Killcully . |
| 7 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 8 | Whilst they were doing five shows a day and rehearsing at the Paramount , they were told to double at the Lido . |
| 9 | The numbers of patients on the island have declined since new arrivals were cut five years ago . |
| 10 | but if you were to spend five years learning weird codes |
| 11 | Reaction times were recorded five times at euglycaemia before starting to eliminate a learning effect . |
| 12 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 13 | You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures . |
| 14 | The Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Prize Band played a selection of music ; a note in the feast programme remarked on the fact that the band comes from the upper end of Nidderdale , from which dale hailed the Netherdale Singers , who were paid five shillings — according to the church accounts — for appearing at Burnsall Feast in 1740 . |
| 15 | The players ran on to the field and the roar was heard five miles away at Kelvin Park , where preparations were already in hand for another Great Exhibition to be held in 1901 . |
| 16 | She was given five pints on admission . |
| 17 | Octreotide was given five minutes before ERCP as an intravenous bolus injectio of 100 µg and immediately after ERCP as a subcutaneous injection of 100 µg . |
| 18 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |
| 21 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 22 | Beno was fined five pounds and told to get a job more suitable to his talents . |
| 23 | Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool . |
| 24 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 25 | He was fined five shillings because he had pursued his trade on a Sunday . |
| 26 | In 1894 James Macgregor , a West Hartlepool JP , was fined five shillings for selling fish and chips at 3am on Christmas Day . |
| 27 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 28 | He has not only been nominated , he was won five Oscars . |
| 29 | It was to comprise five ECJ and three EFTA judges . |
| 30 | For my part , while I accept the housing market has changed radically since and was decided five years ago . |