Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was up to two or three needles a week , and had gone without for maybe 48 hours . |
| 2 | Next morning she was up at seven . |
| 3 | To the left , opposite the reception desk , in the parlour with the rubber plant and the lace half-curtains , where she sometimes had her breakfast ( if she was up before ten when Madame stopped serving it ) , she saw her grandfather , Sir Anthony Everard , erect against the window , with her young aunt his daughter beside him , Xanthe Everard , Miranda 's nursery playmate . |
| 4 | She was down to 99 in two hours . |
| 5 | She was back at 6 , her plimsolls still very white . |
| 6 | Now that she was back in one , it felt as though she 'd never been outside . |
| 7 | She was back within three quarters of an hour in a suit that was , as one dealer pointed out , hardly more business-like than the previous one . |