Example sentences of "she [was/were] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the second of four children , two boys and two girls . |
| 2 | She was the first of a line of ‘ nymphets ’ who would also include Carroll Baker in Baby Doll and be raised to the permanence of art in Nabokov 's Lolita . |
| 3 | She was the first of the laibon 's four wives many years ago . |
| 4 | In 1920 , when women were admitted to degrees and membership of the university , she was the first of the five women principals to receive the MA by decree . |
| 5 | She was the first of a succession of sturdy craft . |
| 6 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 7 | It was built as a shooting lodge in the old days , and then the Hamiltons bought it , and lived there most summers , but old Mrs Hamilton , she was the last of them , died this February , so it 's empty now , and likely to stay so . ’ |
| 8 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 9 | When you spoke of this eagle I knew whom you meant for she was the last of our kind who carried wisdom in her wings . |