Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 2 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 4 | I guess it was n't the first tournament to be won and lost on the Road Hole at St Andrews . |
| 5 | Andropov produced a list of names with crosses against them , and I understood I was practically the last Presidium member who had not been ‘ sworn in ’ . |
| 6 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 7 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 8 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 9 | I even think I was not the first . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , part-time women were usually left to management 's mercies and when recession struck they were usually the first to go . |