Example sentences of "that was the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 2 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 3 | No me elder brother was , not me second brother , that was the Second World War he was in . |
| 4 | 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 , |
| 5 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 6 | That was the second time this afternoon he had mentioned Seville and that was a bit of a coincidence . |
| 7 | I think that was the first person who said and I was n't aware that anyone else felt it |
| 8 | And , er , that was the first station , I came alone . |
| 9 | That was the first weakness , the first failure , which had led on , so inevitably , through the series of , not after all so many , girls who did not matter , to the girl who mattered ; and to the point where Franca 's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end . |
| 10 | That was the first mistake . |
| 11 | That was the first knowledge that Yvonne had of being black . |
| 12 | O K so that was the first objective , next objective |
| 13 | That was the first day of the fourth Test against England . |
| 14 | That was the first day . |
| 15 | That was the first day I realised that the war was really over . |
| 16 | But that was the first case of that absolute determination which he was to use to great effect in the later films I did with him . ’ |
| 17 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 18 | But there was no balers in Orkney then at all , that was the first balers that came here . |
| 19 | That was the first battalion again . |
| 20 | Cos that the year they won that was the first year that what was it erm |
| 21 | When we were in school they were saying ‘ you can be anything you f—ing wan na be ’ , and I think that was the first generation of women that ever heard that , except for thousands of years ago . |
| 22 | That was the first inkling we 'd ever had |
| 23 | Her little squad had survived one firefight , but she 'd already lost a quarter of her manpower and she was sure that the enemy had plenty of reserves They needed rest and medication , that was the first priority . |
| 24 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 25 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 26 | That was the first time I was conscious that before the apocalypse I had never thought of visualising anywhere but in my stomach . |
| 27 | For a short while , neither of us was allowed to drive , and that was the first time I 've known Michael to be really downhearted . |
| 28 | A few days later the father told a project worker , ‘ You know that was the first time I felt I had something to offer to the school . ’ |
| 29 | That was the first time Nathan knew that something was n't right . |
| 30 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |