Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 2 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 3 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 4 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 5 | There was something in the last track of Sheer Event Shift about the Wizard King being crowned in a towering castle . |
| 6 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 7 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 8 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |
| 9 | If there was anyone in the twentieth century to resolve the dilemma , repeat the Beowulf -poet 's masterpiece of compromise , and preserve ‘ the permanent value of that pietas which treasures the memory of man 's struggles in the dark past , man fallen and not yet saved , disgraced but not dethroned ’ ( ‘ Monsters ’ , p. 266 ) , Tolkien must have thought it should be himself . |