Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What were the two of you up to ? ’ |
| 2 | Was it the lobby where we were to meet , and were the two of them waiting there now ? |
| 3 | ‘ What were the two of you talking about ? ’ |
| 4 | There was myself , with an increasingly foolish smile on my face — and there were the two in their green shadow . |
| 5 | Three weeks later Oliver came back from somewhere exotic , and there were the three of us . |
| 6 | er Teresa and Liz were the three of us that were . |
| 7 | Then there were the dozens of papers produced by the various Trotskyite sects , the largest of which , in circulation terms , were Socialist Worker and Socialist Challenge . |
| 8 | It were a five at the other end Derek ! |
| 9 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 10 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 11 | Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds . |
| 12 | That was the five in Papa . |
| 13 | As regards those studying science subjects the most successful group was the 18 to 19 year olds followed by those aged 20 and under 18 . |
| 14 | Soon it was the four of us against all of them . |
| 15 | Well that was the four of them . |
| 16 | The final event of the meeting was the 4 × 400 metres relay . |
| 17 | All she could think of was the two of them , and her suspicion that he was right about her . |
| 18 | The lead to the first trick was the 2 of Hearts . |
| 19 | But as they came into the finish it was the seven to four favourite , , running home to victory . |
| 20 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 21 | The climate and geography created specific problems and , as in Orkney , there was a 7 to 8 month winter . |
| 22 | It was a sixties of the Beatles and their guru , Maharishi Yogi , and the new search for spirituality in Eastern meditation , drugs and psychedelia . |
| 23 | Conversely , equilibrium transcript concentrations were affected for genes involved in deletion : there was a 45 to 65% decrease for genes coding for NADH-dehydrogenase subunits , and a 35% decrease for the cytochrome b gene . |
| 24 | In the event , on 1 March 1979 there was a 4 to 1 majority in Wales against devolution , 243,048 votes in favour and 956,330 against . |
| 25 | On scores , Colin Martlew 's 21–12 was the best that Merseyside could manage , and there was a 21–13 from Roy Lussey , but on the day , the visitors were always in command . |
| 26 | One of the questions erm , there was a one of the categories was quiz shows so I thought well I , I do n't , I wo n't do very well here cos I just do n't watch enough and one of the questions was , who was the helper on erm My , on Take Your Pick ? |
| 27 | So you 're not going to get that like I mean that that was a one in a million shot , finding |
| 28 | The couple sought information about starting a family , and were advised that there was a two in three chance of the child being similarly affected . |
| 29 | After the 286 , as you may have gathered , came the 386 , a 32 bit processor , which was followed by the 386SX , which was a 386 with a 16 bit address bus — see the BUS BITS box . |
| 30 | On the first day we got to the 17th , the Road Hole of course , which was a par-5 in those days , and he hit a great tee-shot . |