Example sentences of "[was/were] the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That were the first words I ever heard on |
| 2 | Those were the first words I can remember . |
| 3 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 4 | It were the first time I ever heard him do it . |
| 5 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 6 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 7 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 8 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 9 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They were the last words he ever spoke . |
| 11 | Those were the last words she ever said . |
| 12 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 13 | Oh I wish we were the last people they might have keep it |
| 14 | They 're alright down here , at least they were the last time we had them . |
| 15 | Getty believed in self-help , the philosophy of Samuel Smiles , though smiles were the last thing he could manage in public . |
| 16 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 17 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 18 | They say when are you going to stop it , and I say , when am I going to stop it , when am I — it was the second night they were in the bar together after their week of absence I remember . |
| 19 | that was the second summer I 'd been there when you used to come down , do n't you be silly , cos he said to me , you remember Roy do n't you and I said yeah , and he use to er , like if he used to come back without me , |
| 20 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 21 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 22 | It was the second time they 'd searched for her , following sightings in North Oxford . |
| 23 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 24 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 25 | It was the second time he had heard the term . |
| 26 | It was the second time he had ignored the ban — he competed in a road race in Cardiff last month . |
| 27 | It was the 28th house he had called at . |
| 28 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 29 | Nildro-hain was the first rabbit they met . |
| 30 | Learning to pronounce the address ‘ Quatorze rue du Perre , Place Pigalle ’ to a taxi driver was the first hurdle they had to overcome : |