Example sentences of "i [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 2 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 3 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 4 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
| 5 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 8 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 9 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 10 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 11 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 12 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 13 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 14 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |
| 15 | When I was in the fourth year at high school we had to do work experience for two weeks . |
| 16 | I was in the fourth year , the top year . |
| 17 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the eighth class in Moyne , ’ he said and named four boys in the same class . |
| 19 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |