Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 4 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 5 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 6 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 7 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 8 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 9 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 10 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 11 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 12 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 13 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 14 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 15 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 16 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 17 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 18 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |