Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned .
2 Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first
3 Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row .
4 tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year
5 I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat .
6 tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year
7 I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were .
8 I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether .
9 I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years .
10 When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination .
11 When I was in the fourth year at high school we had to do work experience for two weeks .
12 I was in the fourth year , the top year .
13 ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school .
14 I was in the eighth class in Moyne , ’ he said and named four boys in the same class .
15 I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first .
16 IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world .
17 Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ?
18 Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act .
19 To Dr Porter , " in a multitude of small ways , the poor law served as a thorough-going system of support " which was in the first half of the eigh-teenth century " quite generous in their paternalist supplements to domestic income " .
20 The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure .
21 We leave the book with a clear image of war which was in the last line , we are just as bad as the boys on that island , that is what man is like .
22 A listener would like to hear from any ex-pupils of School Worksop who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils .
23 Any ex-pupils of School Worksop , who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils .
24 Second , how successful you were in the last job so that she ? he can gauge what calibre of person you are .
25 She was in the second row .
26 Yeah probably about sixty five expect there some where there in tra and she said she was in the fourth year , did n't she ?
27 She was in the sixth form at school starting her A levels when she met Andrew , the father of her baby .
28 But erm I 've spent sort of twelve months trying to cope with snippets about S A T S. And his previous teacher who was in the second year , is a really good , very conscientious teacher .
29 Myeloski , who was in the next room , heard him return .
30 She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were .
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