Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 2 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 3 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 4 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 5 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 6 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 7 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 8 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 9 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |
| 10 | The Soyuz TM-13 flight which relieved him was the first to be undertaken since the demise of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 . |
| 12 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 13 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 14 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 15 | No , it was n't the first time , but remembering what had happened previously , how he had kissed her and , worst of all , how she had responded , she knew it was the last place she would have chosen when she needed to keep a clear head ! |
| 16 | Oh , thought it was the twenty-fourth . |
| 17 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was the Last Rites they gave you when you were dying , what d' you call it , Extreme Unction ? ’ |
| 19 | Then the Reverend called , with his news about the weather turning stormy , and I thought he was the last person we needed to hear from . |
| 20 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 21 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 22 | Duncan realized it was the first time Myeloski had mentioned Oldenburg 's Russian origins . |
| 23 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 24 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether she had any more , she said she hoped it was the last and I should think she did , thirteen children to look after . |
| 26 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 27 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 30 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |