Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 2 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 3 | I mean some of us were in at six . |
| 4 | Four were down for 112 before Best and Richards took the score to 192 . |
| 5 | Once again , the Saturday 's play was washed out , but on Monday morning five wickets were down for 100 and , with Lloyd having badly pulled a hamstring while fielding , the follow-on definitely loomed . |
| 6 | Gooch won an important toss , put West Indies in , and before long five wickets were down for 29 . |
| 7 | We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 . |
| 8 | Last year it was one of the few paint companies in the South American country to make a profit , although results were down on 1991 . |
| 9 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 10 | At one stage in the game they were down to 11 men , but their shortcomings should not be allowed to detract from Warrington 's impressively positive performance , the home side contributing much that was memorable in a thrilling and thunderously received encounter . |
| 11 | The tiny protection parties for these three squads were down to 10 men through casualties before landing , but they led the way , stifling small arms fire from near the burning Forge de l'Ouest , then clearing an enemy trench in a skirmish round a dockside crane . |
| 12 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 13 | Attendances were down to one million per week . |
| 14 | On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members . |
| 15 | Duck numbers were down to 503 in eight species with tufted duck heading the list at 313 , twice the figure for last year 's May count , but there were only 46 shelduck whereas last year we found 121 . |
| 16 | And then we were down to five shillings a week , there was four of us you see , five shillings a week relief . |
| 17 | On Saturday morning it was discovered as Scotch whiskey was concerned there was a very definite drought , and stocks at the several bars were down to zero — a situation which no self-respecting Whitehorse citizen could tolerate for long . |
| 18 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 19 | And we were down to sixty seconds when the referee did Watford another favour spotting an elbow in the face and sticking to his guns . |
| 20 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 21 | Up to this point as I said Leeds had been on top — this included a period when Hodge was off the field after colliding with a Crewe player and injuring his wrist , thus Leeds were down to ten men . |
| 22 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 23 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 24 | The Socialist Workers ' formation heckle team numbered about five and by the time the egg-throwers had been apprehended , they were down to three . |
| 25 | He pointed out that on 3 March 1942 , his original recruits were down to three officers and thirteen men , and if brought up to strength they could be far better employed as a raiding force than as instructors for the proposed Indian units . |
| 26 | The Orkney variety is extinct and the Shetland is critically low in numbers : at one stage they were down to 35 purebred cows and two bulls . |
| 27 | Evening papers still reached 90 per cent of their local households in the early 1960s : by 1980 , they were down to 60 per cent . |
| 28 | Numbers were down to 420,000 by January 1940 and , although there were fluctuations as bombing began in earnest , by the end of 1942 only 220,000 remained . |
| 29 | Lengths of rivers classified as " grossly polluted " were down by 56 per cent . |
| 30 | Supplies from Russia via Georgia were down by one-third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption as a result of fighting in the area . |