Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
2 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
3 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
4 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
5 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
6 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
7 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
8 | The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years . |
9 | My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’ |
10 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
11 | It 's my birthday on the thirteenth . |
12 | She 's just written to her to say that she 's on This is Your Life on the third or fourth of March , whatever it is |
13 | ‘ Let's see , what time is your man off the first tee ? ’ |
14 | What would you say is your legacy to the next generation ? |
15 | This is a fax to OSEVA , capital O , capital S , capital E , capital V , capital A of Czechoslovakia and it is for the attention of Dipling capital D I P L stop capital I N G stop Josef J O S E F and the heading is your fax of the twelfth instant . |
16 | This is our objective in the next chapter . |
17 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
18 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
19 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
20 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
21 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
22 | 3 What was his score in the 4th match ? |
23 | That was his intention from the first . |
24 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
25 | Yes but it was our mistake in the first place . |
26 | He was your friend until the last few months preceding the insurrection in Romania . |