Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would play in the dark shed , where there were millions of daddy-long-legs , or stand about watching him while he dug . |
| 2 | ‘ You realise that you were one of the last people to see Dr Wetherby alive ? ’ |
| 3 | And I ca n't say I have the slightest sympathy for them , and I would also guess that you were one of those caught with their financial trousers down . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you give me the impression that you were one of my father 's employees ? ’ she questioned without preamble . |
| 5 | ‘ You let me go on believing that you were one of their crew , ’ she persisted heatedly , provoked by his bland unconcern . |
| 6 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 7 | ‘ I thought — am I wrong ? — that you were one of those who voted for Duke William as heir . |
| 8 | As you may have guessed , we did n't get through that round , but getting to London meant that we were one of the best bands ( for our age — fifteen to sixteen years ) in East Anglia . |
| 9 | In the first place , it is clear that the working class , along with the middle class , was reducing its fertility — although there were one of two exceptions in some of the most depressed industrial towns . |
| 10 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 11 | He explained to us , through Wong , that the participants on the course at Peking would be teachers from various Institutes and Universities in Peking , that there were 27 of them , and that they would be divided into two groups , to whom we would each ‘ lecture ’ alternately every morning . |
| 12 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 13 | Both official Soviet accounts claimed that no one had been killed , although previous unofficial accounts of the accident had suggested that there were hundreds of fatalities from radiation contamination . |
| 14 | I know that there were thirteen of us playing the game , and there were only twelve people in the house . |
| 15 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 16 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 17 | but slightly cramped once there were four of us , |
| 18 | Once there were thousands of varieties of apples just as there were multiple varieties of most plant foods . |
| 19 | Patrick Kelly heard the underlying loneliness in her voice and knew instinctively that they were two of a kind . |
| 20 | I talked to about 30 or 40 people who knew him pretty well , and they all thought that they were one of the most important people in his life . |
| 21 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 22 | Dennis Lloyd and I were two of them , and the third was Desmond ( now Lord ) Plummer , who was an estate agent and surveyor and an expert on rent restriction . |
| 23 | IF I were one of the millions who good heartedly subscribe on a regular basis to the NSPCC , I would , at the moment , be seriously considering whether my money was in sensible hands . |
| 24 | NUMEROSO : Perhaps he will , but if I were one of the people coming to live here I 'd want some kind of security I think … or would I ? |
| 25 | It was torture and you were one of those who suffered most . |
| 26 | If your town was cabled and you were one of 80,000 house-holders who paid a subscription , you could get a variety of extra specialized channels such as sport and movies . |
| 27 | He looked down at her , about to kiss her good-night as if she were one of Francesca 's friends , and pulled himself up . |
| 28 | When Ivy and Margaret had gone to get their gas masks in 1939 ‘ the girl ’ had asked Margaret if she were one of the heroines of An Adventure . |
| 29 | Only Spiderglass could protect her — if she were one of them . |
| 30 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |