Example sentences of "[prep] it [was/were] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 2 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 3 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
| 4 | Er , you like the milkman the milkman I mean absolutely stupid I thought because he kept putting milk up it was thirty P when we went there first |
| 5 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 6 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 7 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 8 | It was , it was without this hundred on it was fifty ohms . |
| 9 | On it was one shoe with the buckle missing and a half filled chamber-pot . |
| 10 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 11 | On it were four names written neatly underneath each other . |
| 12 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 13 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 14 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |