Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 2 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 3 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 4 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 5 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 6 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 7 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 8 | ‘ He was killed in the last war , before I was born . |
| 9 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 10 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 11 | Fair-haired , but perhaps somewhat slight of build for the rigours of the lower reaches of the Football League , Bernard was certainly a fast and cagey winger , and his talent was recognised when he was selected for the 3rd Division South representative side against the 3rd Division North , in the fifth and final match between them at Selhurst Park on 30 October 1957 . |
| 12 | But he was kept in the first team for too long . |
| 13 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 14 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 15 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 16 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 17 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 18 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 19 | He was elected at the first count , Ruari Quinn at the fifteenth . |
| 20 | As the candidate of New Democracy ( ND ) , he was elected on the second round of voting with 153 votes ( two more than the required absolute majority of the 300 seats in parliament ) . |
| 21 | He was elected on the third round of voting . |
| 22 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
| 23 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 24 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 25 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
| 26 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
| 27 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 28 | He was eliminated in the first round , coming fourth behind de Gaulle , Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet . |
| 29 | The effect was that Craig did not receive 1,476 out of the 3,813 papers on which he was shown as a second preference . |
| 30 | He was attached to the 3rd Army Corps , and while serving in France he earned a mention in despatches . |