Example sentences of "[vb past] was the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 2 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 3 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 4 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 5 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 6 | What Dickens liked was the last thing he wished to have lying in , or rather on , his stomach . |
| 7 | In what Western experts said was the first recognition of the extent of Kremlin military activity , Lieutenant-General Anatoly Sidorov listed Korea , Egypt , Syria , Angola and Ethiopia as other countries where Soviet troops fought . |
| 8 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |