Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 2 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 3 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 4 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 5 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
| 6 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 7 | Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch . |
| 8 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |