Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 2 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 3 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 4 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 5 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 6 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 7 | I know it was the last straw of many . |
| 8 | At least , I suppose it was the fifteenth … |
| 9 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 10 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 11 | She replaced the receiver , standing unmoving , staring across the room towards the Knudsen with hungry eyes , knowing it was the last time she would ever see it . |
| 12 | No , it was n't the first time , but remembering what had happened previously , how he had kissed her and , worst of all , how she had responded , she knew it was the last place she would have chosen when she needed to keep a clear head ! |
| 13 | Oh , thought it was the twenty-fourth . |
| 14 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was the Last Rites they gave you when you were dying , what d' you call it , Extreme Unction ? ’ |
| 16 | Yeah well they do n't think it was they do n't think it was the first one , no . |
| 17 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 18 | Duncan realized it was the first time Myeloski had mentioned Oldenburg 's Russian origins . |
| 19 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 20 | yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out |
| 21 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
| 22 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 23 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 24 | Oh well er I think it was the last . |
| 25 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 26 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 27 | I think it was the sixth of September . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether she had any more , she said she hoped it was the last and I should think she did , thirteen children to look after . |
| 29 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 30 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |