Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [num] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were hundred of them flying round the end of the during the war . |
| 2 | There were four of them : one thin , one fat and two nondescript . |
| 3 | There were four of them ; they had shared the dead youths ' clothing between them . |
| 4 | There were four of them so there was as much chance of the average Girl staying at the Tiller flat as of getting into Buckingham Palace . |
| 5 | There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition . |
| 6 | There were four of them , dressed in black , suited up and masked , huge lantern guns cradled against their chests . |
| 7 | There were four of them , dressed in the pale green uniforms of the Ebert household . |
| 8 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ There were four of them , ’ Guy answered briefly . |
| 10 | There were four of them , Tod , with chains , and Dirkin had a knife . |
| 11 | There were sixty-three of them . |
| 12 | There were eighteen of them on the boat with me . |
| 13 | In that room where my mam were getting changed there were one of them machines , you know what you blow into Alb ? |
| 14 | There were six of them , five with small slices taken out and the sixth with the knife still in it . |
| 15 | He used to come into our place and erm , and er , I always knew when he was g every night , hale , rain , snow whatever , he was there , you see and he used to have his pint of bitter , no more or no less and er , you see and all his friends , there were six of them . |
| 16 | There were six of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a big litter and there were sixteen of them hurtling around like little pink racehorses . |
| 19 | there were sixteen of them , sixteen of them all there |
| 20 | There were fourteen of them . |
| 21 | There were thirteen of them . |
| 22 | There were 16 of them and they were all defendants in this case . |
| 23 | There were five of them ; the sixth escaped when a man broke the door down . |
| 24 | There were five of them : the biggest , a girl , looking not much younger than Millie herself . |
| 25 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 26 | As usual , there were five of them on the village green , waiting for the school bus . |
| 27 | There were five of them . |
| 28 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 29 | There were five of them , and they appeared none too happy at the prospect of battling a Myrcan . |
| 30 | There were five of them , I think ; it was difficult to be precise in the gloom . |