Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 9 | For sinners , the death-bed was the stage on which was played the last act of the impending tragedy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 14 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 19 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy . |
| 24 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 25 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 26 | She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 30 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |