Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so startled the first time that she said to it : ‘ How nice to see you , my lord . ’ |
| 2 | I was so ill the next day Gill . |
| 3 | James Boswell in the eighteenth century was generally impotent the first time he slept with women of his own class , though in sex with lower-class girls he could easily prove his manhood . |
| 4 | When his three-year-old son saw the rods he started crying and said he wanted to go fishing , and was still upset the next morning . |
| 5 | Yes , I saw them queuing for tomatoes , but the stall was still well-stocked the next day . |
| 6 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 7 | He was even hungrier the next morning when he woke up , and he had to buy some more bread with his penny . |
| 8 | I thought it was quite expensive the last time we wrote there as well . |
| 9 | Having lain sleepless until the early hours , it was almost eleven-thirty the next day before Luce surfaced . |
| 10 | That night we stayed in the town as our flight was too early the next day to get to the airport from the good country to the south . |
| 11 | After the meeting he said to one of the local people that it was very unlike the Last Conference in 1913 when he attacked L.G. for 45 minutes amid great applause . |