Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 2 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 3 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 4 | I 've even seen Bruce Springsteen having to explain who he was for the tenth time in one record company reception . |
| 5 | Whatever he wore he looked marvellous in , and Fran 's heart tripped alarmingly as she appreciated how attractive he was for the umpteenth time . |
| 6 | He was among the first generation of British artists to respond favourably , through their own art , to the ideas of Picasso , Braque , Miro and their circle . |
| 7 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 8 | He was in the first Section I was in . |
| 9 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 10 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 11 | In January 690 he was in the second year of his reign , so his accession took place in 688 , no doubt in the immediate aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
| 12 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
| 13 | I had n't had Hilary since he was in the second year . ’ |
| 14 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |
| 15 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |
| 16 | University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form . |
| 17 | He was in the next incubator at Guy 's hospital to first victim Dean Bunn . |