Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun sg] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 2 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 3 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 4 | Kohl was elected Chancellor for the fourth time on Jan. 17 by 378 of the 644 votes cast in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 5 | In the presidential elections of January 1991 , Soares was elected President for a second five-year term [ see p. 37968 ] . |