Example sentences of "[was/were] the [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 | Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds . |
| 9 | That was the five in Papa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soon it was the four of us against all of them . |
| 12 | Well that was the four of them . |
| 13 | The final event of the meeting was the 4 × 400 metres relay . |
| 14 | All she could think of was the two of them , and her suspicion that he was right about her . |
| 15 | The lead to the first trick was the 2 of Hearts . |
| 16 | But as they came into the finish it was the seven to four favourite , , running home to victory . |
| 17 | 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 … |