Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 3 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
| 4 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 7 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 8 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 9 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 10 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 11 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 12 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 13 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |
| 14 | When I was in the fourth year at high school we had to do work experience for two weeks . |
| 15 | I was in the fourth year , the top year . |
| 16 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in the eighth class in Moyne , ’ he said and named four boys in the same class . |
| 18 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |
| 21 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 22 | And you see doing th er that er junior the junior school In the earlier junior school we were at the church as well , which was on the next street , St John 's Church at Mansfield . |
| 23 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 24 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 25 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 26 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 27 | It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |