Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the second [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , second battalion Black Watch were there , we were the second battalion row . |
| 2 | It was the second court appearance for 19 year old Stephen Reynolds . |
| 3 | It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female . |
| 4 | It was the second suicide bid by Newall , who is accused of murdering his wealthy parents on the Bergerac island of Jersey five years ago . |
| 5 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 6 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 7 | For the 87 year old , it was the second time thieves have raided her home . |
| 8 | It was the Second World War that plucked ‘ Joe ’ Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration . |