Example sentences of "[vb past] been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 2 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 3 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 4 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
| 5 | Sister Cooney had been the first to hint it to him . |
| 6 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 7 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 8 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 9 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 10 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 11 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 12 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 13 | The great hero Rodrigo del Bivar — El Cid — had been the first person to use the weight of heavily armed cavalry against the more lightly clad Moors . |
| 14 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 15 | Indeed , Dr. Mooreman , the vicar of Menheniot from 1530 , had been the first to teach parishioners the Lord 's Prayer and Liturgy in English . |
| 16 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 17 | He had been the first to reach Maggie , though her screams had brought people running from all the neighbouring tenements . |
| 18 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 20 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 21 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 22 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 23 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 24 | Mum , Frankie and Liza had been the first to go , before Dad saw them . |
| 25 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 26 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 27 | The Squadron had been the first to receive the Lancaster in December 1941 , and W/C d'Arcy , the Squadron 's commander , was anxious to find a Lancaster for display at Waddington as a reminder of the unit 's close association with the type . |
| 28 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 29 | The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution . |
| 30 | They are the means used by the writers and the early church to express their own awareness of the significance of Jesus who , as the Founder of Christianity , had been the first to discover the deep truth that God and man are one . |