Example sentences of "and [pron] was [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 2 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 3 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 4 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 5 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 6 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |