Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 2 | She was in the third of its twenty-odd rows of wooden seating . |
| 3 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 4 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 5 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 6 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 7 | It was after the third year of struggle that we decided to go militant . |
| 8 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |