Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 2 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 3 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 4 | All she could do was stare glumly at the sign hanging inside the door — CONFISERIE VASSOIR : Ouvert 9.30–18.30 Mardi à Samedi — then glance at her watch , which confirmed she was fifteen minutes too late . |
| 5 | The following table shows a surge in the number of female actuaries over the last decade an also demonstrates how male dominated we were 60 years ago . |
| 6 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 7 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 8 | I heard it was six weeks . |
| 9 | Okay so you decided on your scale and you decided it was nine centimetres along there okay and f the way to do it fairly accurately is just draw a line that 's a bit longer than nine . |
| 10 | What persuaded him were two bits of Temple 's mind which he could not mistake . |
| 11 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 12 | The other time Artemis saw him was one day when she and Nanny were returning from a walk by the lake . |
| 13 | I was forced to put Micky Deere between the posts and the referee 's insistence that he remove his bi-focals meant he was two fathoms below useless . |
| 14 | last I knew it was five pence a year . |
| 15 | I knew it was 2 midlands clubs , and that West Brom were involved … did nt realise it was stoke tho . |
| 16 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 17 | As I approached Gateshead Hall , I realized it was nine years since I had left it . |
| 18 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 19 | " The address you gave him was 626 Cheyne Walk , Chelsea S.W. 10 ? " |
| 20 | I said I was eight-and-a-half months . |
| 21 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 22 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 23 | He said We are 35 seats out of 75 with this one 36 we have a by election on Thursday which we are hoping to win from Labour if we can persuade an Independent to join us we shall overall control of the council . |
| 24 | Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here . |
| 25 | I said you should have brought back ninety five pounds he said it 's ten pounds extra . |
| 26 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 27 | He said it was six feet six inches long , and he took it to Bramble Wildlife Park near Canterbury for examination . |
| 28 | Over the top , the road curved around to the left and a roadside milestone said it was two miles to Broughton Street . |
| 29 | The motion was moved by the Rev Canon John Dale ( Worcester ) who said it was five years since the request for legislation on women priests was made . |
| 30 | So she said it was five point four , or five point six I think it was . |