Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] the second " in BNC.
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1 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
2 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
3 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
4 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
5 | She was on the second line . |
6 | She was in the second row . |
7 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
8 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
9 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
10 | As we discussed in Chapter l , it was after the Second World War that the behavioural revolution which had begun in the inter-war period swept the Faculties of Social Science . |
11 | It was after the Second World War that the class distinction in station facilities disappeared , although it remained on the trains . |
12 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
13 | However , it was in the second League match after the war that Graham made his first claim to a place ( albeit an unfortunate one ) in Palace 's record-book . |
14 | It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates . |
15 | It was a hard philosophy , but he claimed it was both immutable and universal , as true in the fifth Dominion , called Earth , as it was in the Second . |
16 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
17 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
18 | [ It was in the second half of the sixth century that the primitive tragedy practised by the Dionysiac worshippers developed into true drama , and , in the same period , ] the cult was accepted as a public cult in Athens . |
19 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |
20 | In January 690 he was in the second year of his reign , so his accession took place in 688 , no doubt in the immediate aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
21 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
22 | I had n't had Hilary since he was in the second year . ’ |