Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 32 | Charles II was proclaimed king in May 1660 and , because parliament declared he had been de jure king since his father 's death , his first year of actual kingship was designated his twelfth and a starting date of 29 May was adopted . |
| 33 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 34 | It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents . |
| 35 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 36 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 37 | The strategy was given its first airing two days after the Danish vote at a meeting of the Council in Oslo on 4 June , when it was agreed to proceed with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty while giving time to the Danes to resolve their problems . |
| 38 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 39 | Dustin was given his first chance to be in pictures . |
| 40 | The moment she had settled to this , Peter was given his first parish , a little parish in a country town to the south of Bristol . |
| 41 | He was given his last — and only — pair of trousers on his birthday nearly a year earlier by his father . |
| 42 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 43 | She was nursing her fifth cup of awful coffee . |
| 44 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 45 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 46 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 47 | Just a few weeks ago , Sefton was enjoying his thirtieth birthday party . |
| 48 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 49 | Miles and Bell , along with Andy Gregory , were signalled out for special praise by Monie , who was gaining his eighth major trophy in under three seasons at the club . |
| 50 | But the Champion chaser , who was landing his 12th success from 13 starts over fences for Nicky Henderson ( above ) , was far from impressive on the softish surface . |
| 51 | The duration of his restoration was deemed his 49th regnal year — in other words , the reign of Edward was ignored . |
| 52 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 53 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 54 | Says David : ‘ That was at York four years ago when he was won his ninth race of the season . |
| 55 | Next it was Hunt 's turn to be confused by the Australian Warwick Brown , who was driving his first race and who , practically without gears , was going as near zero as possible in the middle of the chicane . |
| 56 | My research in the following few years was to lead me first to Rennes-le-Chateau to check Wood 's discovery and then to Wiltshire 's Marlborough Downs , which have since also become home to the world 's corn circle phenomenon . |
| 57 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 58 | This was Silver , a nephew of the Threarah , who was serving his first month in the Owsla . |
| 59 | Frank , who was serving his fifth term in the House and was one of the country 's most liberal federal legislators , had acknowledged his homosexuality in 1987 . |
| 60 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |