Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 2 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 3 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 4 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 5 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 6 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 7 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 8 | The threat was sufficient to alarm the king 's sister Adela , and she warned the king , who was now in the last stages of planning his final great attack on his brother 's duchy of Normandy . |
| 9 | In fact , we were ahead in the last game until a tactical error by one of the players ( he knows who he is ! ) caused the sad downfall . ’ |
| 10 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 11 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 12 | When any number of heads of diplomatic missions were assembled in one place , even on the most innocent social occasion , there was always in the seventeenth century , as much as in the preceding one , a likelihood of trouble . |
| 13 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 14 | They were now into the next lecture period , the last before lunch , and the campus had quietened down again . |
| 15 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 16 | They were behind throughout the second half against Bromley , but the lethal shooting of Kulbir Takher saved them . |
| 17 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 18 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 19 | My associations with Wenceslas Square were not so much with the events of 1989 , though it was here on the 18th November that the crowds gathered to protest about the police violence of the night before . |
| 20 | Sure enough , it was just as the second , regurgitated blade appeared , dangling on a length of thread from Jim Rose 's mouth , that Richard had collided suddenly and rather violently with the floor of Strathclyde University Union 's level eight hall . |
| 21 | It was just after the Second World War that Wimpey first established a local presence in the Middle East . |
| 22 | It was just like the first one . |
| 23 | It was exactly like the first time . |
| 24 | She knew by the temperature that it was now about the sixth hour . |
| 25 | It was midway through the second half of Saturday 's game at Kingsholm , when what had been a fair game , turned foul . |
| 26 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 27 | Gremlin probably the species most recently to enter the catalogue of supernatural beings , for it was only during the Second World War that these misty GNOME-like creatures were blamed by British and American pilots and navigators for any trouble which assailed their aircraft . |
| 28 | It was only over the last six holes that Faldo put a spurt on . |
| 29 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 30 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |