Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 2 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 3 | The saint was to throw the last and feared lest the rock should dislodge the pile . |
| 4 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 5 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
| 6 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 7 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 8 | They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath . |
| 9 | Witnesses working near the river bank in Gloucester where a body was found the next day , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court of hearing screams . |
| 10 | Her body was found the next February and a man , hospital radiographer Frederic Blancke , was charged with murder . |
| 11 | Allies and Morrison won the second prize of £1,500 and Peter Clash was awarded the third prize of £1,000 . |
| 12 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 13 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 14 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 15 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
| 16 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 17 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 18 | Thibaut was considered the second most powerful man in France after the king . |
| 19 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |
| 20 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 21 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 22 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 23 | The radio was reclaimed the next morning . |
| 24 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |
| 25 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |
| 26 | The patient was discharged the next day . |
| 27 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 28 | The switchboard was jammed the first night I wore them — it really is odd the little things that bring an instant response . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 30 | Wilcock was to spend the next thirty years attempting to put it into practice . |