Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 2 | Nobody witnessed Georgina 's fall and her body was only discovered the next morning . |
| 3 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 4 | It was already broken the second day of . |
| 5 | Donna was already opening the second envelope . |
| 6 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 7 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 8 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 9 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 10 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |
| 11 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |
| 12 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 13 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 14 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 15 | William Penn , who founded Pennsylvania , was baptised at All Hallows , and John Quincy Adams married there in 1797 ; he was later to become the sixth president of the U.S.A. |
| 16 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 17 | I was now approaching the eighth green , a plateau with four deep bunkers cut into the face and sides and a pronounced slope at the back if you overshot . |
| 18 | Any hope I might have entertained that Lewis and Verity 's little Hogmanay hug had been an aberration , something they would fail to follow through , or feel for some reason embarrassed about , was comprehensively quashed the next evening when they turned up together at Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's , bearing all the signs of new lovers ( literally so in the case of Lewis 's neck , which displayed a line of passion purpurae worthy of an industrial vacuum cleaner , and which were ill-concealed by Lewis 's longish dark curls and a white shirt fastened with a bootlace tie ) . |
| 19 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 20 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 21 | The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach . |
| 22 | It was almost destroyed the last time . ’ |
| 23 | It was n't until 1890 that Halling had its own station and on the morning of its opening the School Master John Scholey was there to buy the first ticket . |
| 24 | In any case , there was no escaping the next move . |
| 25 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |