Example sentences of "and [pron] was the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 2 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 3 | ‘ Before , designer fragrances did n't exist , only in high-fashion houses , and I was the first to do it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 5 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 6 | We decided it would be a good idea to develop a computer corpus of British English , intended to match the Brown University Corpus of American English which had recently become available , and which was the first computer corpus of modern English . |
| 7 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 8 | In 1950 the Alfa Romeo team drivers were known as ‘ The Three Fs ’ — Fangio , Farina and who was the third ? |
| 9 | Three teams in 1969 raced four-wheel drive — Lotus , Tyrrell-Matra and who was the third ? |
| 10 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 11 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 12 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 13 | And she was the first teacher and there was Mi Mr who was the head teacher . |
| 14 | ‘ There were frequent calls for her services from all parts of the British Isles and she was the first to sing in Welsh on Dublin radio . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , and there was the first of the three dead cows . |
| 16 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 17 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 18 | Yeah , and there was the last time I cut it I remember . |
| 19 | And he was the second Bristol joyrider to die in a police chase this week . |
| 20 | And he was the second oldest of the family . |
| 21 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 22 | The event gave him a place in world headlines , and he was the first classical pianist to win a platinum disc for sales exceeding a million copies of a single record , for his recording of Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto . |
| 23 | Practical experience with stained glass must have led George Palmer to consider the nature of colour , and he was the first to put forward the modern theory of colour vision and colour blindness . |
| 24 | And he was the first mufti in the Ottoman state . " |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he was interested — and he was the first . |
| 26 | And he was the first and the only Republican or Democratic candidate to propose an international minimum wage . |
| 27 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 28 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 29 | His interest in politics came partly from it , and he was the first of a string of Thatcherite Tories to come from St Andrews . |
| 30 | And he was the first er , really , er boxer who became a celebrity . |