Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [art] [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 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 22 | She was on the second line . |
| 23 | She was on the last mouthful . |
| 24 | Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home . |
| 25 | She was in the second row . |
| 26 | Yeah probably about sixty five expect there some where there in tra and she said she was in the fourth year , did n't she ? |
| 27 | She was in the sixth form at school starting her A levels when she met Andrew , the father of her baby . |
| 28 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 29 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 30 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |