Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 2 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 3 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 4 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
| 5 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 6 | Witnesses working near the river bank in Gloucester where a body was found the next day , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court of hearing screams . |
| 7 | They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath . |
| 8 | Allies and Morrison won the second prize of £1,500 and Peter Clash was awarded the third prize of £1,000 . |
| 9 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 10 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 11 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 12 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
| 13 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 14 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 15 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |
| 16 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 17 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 18 | The radio was reclaimed the next morning . |
| 19 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |
| 20 | The patient was discharged the next day . |
| 21 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 22 | The switchboard was jammed the first night I wore them — it really is odd the little things that bring an instant response . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 24 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 25 | She did , and my appendix was removed the next morning . |
| 26 | This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done . |
| 27 | A hasty cut and stitch job by the Italian organisers restores Arab pride when a five-pointer was unfurled the next day . |
| 28 | A trade co-operation agreement was signed the next day . |
| 29 | Li Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice-President with 93 per cent of the votes , receiving 602 out of 644 cast . |