Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 2 | Gentle 's thoughts were of his last exchange with Judith . |
| 3 | The London Midland Region also gave up with its older AC electric locomotives , first its troublesome contractor-built Classes 82 , 83 and 84 , and then with new designs coming along , Classes 81 and 85 were into their last days . |
| 4 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 5 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 6 | Our Oceanis 320s were in their second year . |
| 7 | By 1962 , when the children were in their sixteenth year , the number still resident in Great Britain was 4,720 , of whom 3,626 ( 76.8 per cent ) were given further tests . |
| 8 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | While they were in their last port of call , the Volunteer , Tommy even disappeared out of the pub followed by the barmaid , a pert , slightly plump girl called Rose . |
| 10 | Reifenhauser K.G. Maschinenfabrik where discovery procedures were in their third year , the defendant having already answered two sets of interrogatories without taking any point about the applicability of the Convention . |
| 11 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |
| 12 | Travellers and officials looked weary , and we perhaps more than most : we were in our sixth hour of confusion at the border . |
| 13 | The boys of 602 were on their second cup of tea and the ‘ Spits ’ half-refuelled when a full-scale bombing raid , the first attack on Britain of the war , began out in the Forth . |
| 14 | It took me a lot more years , and even more boyfriends , to cotton on , by which time most of the occupants of the back rows had been married to each other for years and were on their second spin dryer . |
| 15 | And when Ross had proceeded to tell all the interested spectators — of which there had been many — that he and Laura were on their second honeymoon … she 'd almost exploded with loathing of the man who was now so clearly dominating her life . |
| 16 | Holding , Garner and Gomes had retired and youngsters such as Ambrose , Hooper , Arthurton and Bishop were on their first tour of England . |
| 17 | The last two officers were both parachute instructors and were on their first operation . |
| 18 | As he left , the engineers were on their third cup and discussing last week 's retirement party . |
| 19 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
| 20 | His only children were a daughter , Lois , who survived him , and a son , Stanley Robert , who lived but a few days : both were by his first wife . |
| 21 | When she knew the plans were afoot to move her on her concern was for her second in command , a Sinhalese whom she considered worthy of being leader . |
| 22 | It was for our second anniversary . |
| 23 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 24 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 25 | Talented but without driving ambition , Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson 's disease . |
| 26 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 27 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 28 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 29 | It was about their last overall assertion of authority , and was carried out smoothly and simultaneously so that the Indonesians were unable to reply . |
| 30 | It was about her twentieth attempt too . |