Example sentences of "was [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 2 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 3 | Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done . |
| 4 | Mr Brettell , who is married , pleaded ‘ no contest ’ to a public lewdness charge and was given one year probation , after which the misdemeanor will likely be dropped . |
| 5 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 6 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 7 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 8 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 9 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 10 | A ROBBER who made Nazi salutes after shooting an Asian boy and his uncle was given two life sentences yesterday . |
| 11 | A ROBBER who made Nazi salutes after shooting dead a 15-year-old Asian schoolboy and attempting to murder his uncle was given two life sentences yesterday . |
| 12 | He was given two telephone numbers to contact MI5 , 01–222 5471 and 01–637 7319 . |
| 13 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 14 | Just five days before Courtney was convicted , Anthony Heard , a 25-year-old man of no fixed address , was given three life sentences for three rapes . |
| 15 | In February John Broom , 30 , was given three life sentences for raping a schoolgirl aged 16 , and later indecently assaulting a student . |
| 16 | He was given three penalty points and ordered to pay £15 towards prosecution costs . |
| 17 | Each year there is an annual debate between the Treasury and the different government departments on the size of their budgets , but the aim of this meeting was to go one stage further . |
| 18 | The gardener had completed his magic circle , and was hanging three warning boards from the stanchions , with the legend boldly and hurriedly slashed in red paint : DANGER ! |
| 19 | Under the electoral law decreed on March 17 by the provisional Council for National Unity government [ see pp. 37327-28 ] , the country was divided into 41 constituencies ; Bucharest , the capital and the most populous constituency , was assigned 39 Assembly seats and 14 Senate seats . |
| 20 | The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist . |
| 21 | The second youngest , who was remarried one year before , offered her a place in his bungalow . |
| 22 | The movement was founded by George Fox , who was walking one day on Pendle Hill when , as he said , the sky opened and the Lord showed him a great multitude of people waiting to be saved . |
| 23 | There were four nurses ' rooms each of which was to contain one bedstead , a flock bed , pillow and bolster and two blankets , two pairs of sheets and two pillow-cases ; the porter 's room was similarly furnished . |
| 24 | Not even the lord of the manor was exempt , L. U. Boldere Esq was fined one shilling for his beck being ‘ undressed ’ . |
| 25 | For this reason my eye was caught one day by a small box-ad at the bottom of the column : |
| 26 | A. T. I was reported one day . |
| 27 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 28 | Adam was snoring one morning this week . |
| 29 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 30 | She was winding one end of it into a little ball . |