Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 2 | I was the first person the Iranians contacted . |
| 3 | She was wearing a black and white sharkskin dress that did n't make you wonder whether she was the same shape the whole way down . |
| 4 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 5 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 6 | It was the first year the Group 's three NDT companies were represented together : . |
| 7 | It was the first chance the girls had had to speak their own langauage . |
| 8 | It was the first day the wharf walk had been reopened to the public and the first night without a PC on guard at the scene of the crime . |
| 9 | It was the first time the church authorities had discussed the issue of the refugees , some 25,000 of whom have entered Hungary from the south over the past year . |
| 10 | It was the first time the state 's highest court had debated the point and was widely welcomed by accountants . |
| 11 | It was the first time the bishops had met following last November 's historic vote by the Church of England 's General Synod in favour of women 's ordination as priests . |
| 12 | It was the first time the two men had met ; they briefly discussed the dangerous yet promising situation in the east and then retired to their beds . |
| 13 | It was the first time the Worthingtons had ever taken their baby on a train journey … and it broke down just 15 minutes out of Waterloo . |
| 14 | It was the first time the old coldness had returned . |
| 15 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 16 | It was the first time the two leaders had met since Syria 's mid-July agreement to participate in the conference . |
| 17 | It was the first time the city had unseated an incumbent mayor since 1943 . |
| 18 | It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident . |
| 19 | It was the first time the brewer had advertised on TV and the landmark was not lost on Guinness . |
| 20 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 21 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke 's solicitor said as it was the first time the new offence had been tried under the 1991 Road Traffic Act they would be considering an appeal against sentence . |
| 23 | ’ It was the first time the 2 main armies had met and was a victory for the Royalists . |
| 24 | It was the first time the 25-year-old has been able to speak about her ordeal since she was found early on Friday morning after being abducted from near a disco in south Dublin . |
| 25 | It was the first time the cameras had been used since they were installed last year . |
| 26 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 27 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 28 | It was the first Ramadan the hareem had spent away from home and would be the last for many , many years . |
| 29 | It was the loudest noise the Lilliputians had ever heard . |
| 30 | Sixteen sixty five , cos it was the great fire the sixteen sixty six , was erm burning |