Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 2 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
| 3 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 4 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 5 | She was on the second line . |
| 6 | She was in the second row . |
| 7 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 8 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |
| 9 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 10 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 11 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 12 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 13 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 14 | As we discussed in Chapter l , it was after the Second World War that the behavioural revolution which had begun in the inter-war period swept the Faculties of Social Science . |
| 15 | It was after the Second World War that the class distinction in station facilities disappeared , although it remained on the trains . |
| 16 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
| 17 | It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates . |
| 18 | [ It was in the second half of the sixth century that the primitive tragedy practised by the Dionysiac worshippers developed into true drama , and , in the same period , ] the cult was accepted as a public cult in Athens . |
| 19 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 20 | However , it was in the second League match after the war that Graham made his first claim to a place ( albeit an unfortunate one ) in Palace 's record-book . |
| 21 | In January 690 he was in the second year of his reign , so his accession took place in 688 , no doubt in the immediate aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
| 22 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
| 23 | I had n't had Hilary since he was in the second year . ’ |
| 24 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |