Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] in [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 2 | The announcement of the stockpile was predicted in last week 's New Scientist ( 10 February , p 357 ) . |
| 3 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 4 | Vagog was struggling in fourth place at the last where Lady Westown , going the best , fell and brought down Parlezvousfrancais . |
| 5 | The east end was altered in mid-twelfth century by an early chevet design with turrets and flying buttresses which blends admirably with the earlier work ( 264 ) . |
| 6 | ( Decor was covered in last month 's PFK ) |