Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [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 . |