Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] was [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 2 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 3 | Last night I dreamed I used a chair at the hairdresser 's as a toilet and Maggie Smith was in the next chair . |
| 4 | Mr Sargent was in the next door garden , sitting in a deck chair and reading the newspaper . |
| 5 | Princess Margaret was at the next table with Mr and Mrs Paul Newall , . |
| 6 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 7 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 8 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 9 | Roger Chidlow was amongst the first group of immigrants , for he appears in a 1590 rental paying 4d rent for a cottage in Newton . |
| 10 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 11 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 12 | Rocker Schmisch was among the last of Hitler 's bunker staff to escape from the ruins , fifty years ago ; an S S sergeant , he was a telephone operator and bodyguard in the bunker . |
| 13 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 14 | G. A. Smith was among the first to give up , going to work with Urban on developing his new colour process ; Haggar retired in 1909 to run his own cinema ; Williamson curtailed the production of dramatic comic films after his standing contract with the UA was cancelled and directed his energies into educational filmmaking to escape ‘ the horrible nightmare of having my business directed by outsiders . ’ |
| 15 | Now in a private Japanese collection , it appeared on the art market in Egypt in the 1920s when Howard Carter was among the first to recognise its importance . |