Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 2 | I mean she was only seeing the last one off when I came home from work ! |
| 3 | Nobody witnessed Georgina 's fall and her body was only discovered the next morning . |
| 4 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 5 | It was already broken the second day of . |
| 6 | BY the time he had finished his latest enterprising but utterly unproductive search for phantoms Brian Smith was already planning the next . |
| 7 | Donna was already opening the second envelope . |
| 8 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 9 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 10 | Pamela was just completing the fourteenth of the 15 lengths of backstroke she did every morning before breakfast when she realised she was n't alone . |
| 11 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 12 | MICHAEL Blackburn was yesterday named the next chief executive of the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society . |
| 13 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 14 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |
| 15 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |
| 16 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 17 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 18 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 19 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 20 | KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail . |
| 21 | William Penn , who founded Pennsylvania , was baptised at All Hallows , and John Quincy Adams married there in 1797 ; he was later to become the sixth president of the U.S.A. |
| 22 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 23 | He was also to obtain the first formal recognition from the pope of the right of the crown to nominate holders of major benefices , before the kings of either France or Spain ; and he indulged grandiose dreams of annexing continental territories . |
| 24 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 25 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 26 | I was now approaching the eighth green , a plateau with four deep bunkers cut into the face and sides and a pronounced slope at the back if you overshot . |
| 27 | Any hope I might have entertained that Lewis and Verity 's little Hogmanay hug had been an aberration , something they would fail to follow through , or feel for some reason embarrassed about , was comprehensively quashed the next evening when they turned up together at Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's , bearing all the signs of new lovers ( literally so in the case of Lewis 's neck , which displayed a line of passion purpurae worthy of an industrial vacuum cleaner , and which were ill-concealed by Lewis 's longish dark curls and a white shirt fastened with a bootlace tie ) . |
| 28 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 29 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 30 | The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach . |