Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 3 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
| 4 | I realised I was no longer having any fun doing my movies , and I think this was reflected in my last two films , Harlem Nights and Another 48 Hours . |
| 5 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 6 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 7 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 8 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 9 | Still suffering occasional wooziness from the altitude , I sat on the steps , turned my face to the warm sun and was subjected to my first unsuccessful robbery : two little nicks in the zip pocket of my top . |
| 10 | This subject was covered in my last article . |