Example sentences of "[was/were] bear [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 2 | Because you were born under the first sign of the Zodiac , you tend to need excitement , adventure , action and results . |
| 3 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 4 | Steven Patrick Morrissey was born on the 22nd May 1959 . |
| 5 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 6 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 7 | Charlotte 's daughter was born on the first of June , a week or two earlier than expected . |
| 8 | Edward was born on the third of March , and the advent of spring is a constant theme , and symbol of renewal , in everything he has written . |
| 9 | And erm I think he died if I remember rightly , he died on the erm twenty fifth of January and my other brother was born on the third of |
| 10 | Sarah 's daughter was born on the last day of September . |
| 11 | Was Born on the Fourth of July after Top Gun ? |
| 12 | The Labour Party was born with the 20th century , and seems likely to die with it . |
| 13 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 14 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 15 | Yes , Constanza was born in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The brunt of the fighting was borne by the 3rd Battalion , who suffered 70% casualties during eleven assaults in as many days . |