Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was de first inventor — remember |
| 2 | When I was a first year I was put in as ballboy and I did n't know the rules . |
| 3 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 4 | I was a first team regular until then , but it has really set me back . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Dare say fifty years ago , when I was a second lieutenant . |
| 6 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 7 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 8 | I was the second half , an extension of him , and instead of complementing him I 'd thrown shit all over him . |
| 9 | I can only suspect that the speed of my progress through the Division Lobby , as I was the second Member out that night , may have caused confusion . |
| 10 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 11 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ When we — I realised right away that I was the first man to … |
| 13 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 14 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 15 | I was the first home for England in the match against the USA at Birmingham 's Alexandra Stadium , overhauling Lincoln Asquith and Mike McFarlane in the second half of the race after a poor start but failing to catch the Americans Morris and Cook . |
| 16 | I would have moved slightly to the right , I w I was the first objective while you 're looking is to get out of the door . |
| 17 | I was the head of the ‘ Linguistics Section ’ of the Department , and in 1974 this became the ‘ Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language ’ , of which I was the first head . |
| 18 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 19 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 20 | I was the first person the Iranians contacted . |
| 21 | I was the first person in a nun 's care to get pregnant I 'm famous ! |
| 22 | I was the first person she turned to when she found herself pregnant . ’ |
| 23 | Gary says : I was the first person to go solo . |
| 24 | ‘ I bought them in Italy ( I was the first person in England to wear tinted glasses — Prince Philip had them after me ) and the little girl in the shop used to say , ‘ Dad , Dad , that 's Roy Orbison ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
| 26 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 27 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 28 | I was the first son of an Efik tribesman in the Kingdom of Dahomey . |
| 29 | I was the first visitor that she had had since she was transferred from ‘ Grisly ’ Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire , where she sat out the murder and fraud trials . |
| 30 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |