Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died .
2 I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned .
3 It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year .
4 I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini .
5 ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’
6 In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year .
7 James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment .
8 Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’
9 I I found it when I was driving the last time .
10 For sinners , the death-bed was the stage on which was played the last act of the impending tragedy .
11 The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association .
12 The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service .
13 In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) .
14 The tiara was in essence a white cap , having two bands at the back like a mitre , but it had incorporated in it a coronet round the lower rim to which was added a second coronet under Pope Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century , symbolizing sacerdotal and regal powers .
15 With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth .
16 She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died .
17 She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch .
18 Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there !
19 She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club .
20 She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage .
21 It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun .
22 Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green .
23 And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note .
24 It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day .
25 For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy .
26 Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria .
27 She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now .
28 She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day .
29 She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again !
30 She was woken the next morning by Bridget , who appeared in her room carrying a cup of tea and a copy of the Sunday Herald .
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