Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 2 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 3 | I was at the last Olympics and it was a tremendous experience . |
| 4 | If you are at the fifth post how far have you gone from the start ? |
| 5 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 6 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 7 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |
| 8 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 9 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 10 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 11 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |