Example sentences of "was [adv] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was naturally our first port of call , ’ Ockleton continued , climbing from the car and leading the way into the churchyard . |
| 2 | Well , it was only her second day . |
| 3 | Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 . |
| 4 | It was only her third visit in more than two decades of terrorist violence . |
| 5 | It was only their second week and Flavia , a little puzzled , a little awed , at times , was at ease now with the alien friend , the tender and exciting alien she was beginning to love a little . |
| 6 | Hartlepool 's 3-0 home victory against Wrexham on Saturday was only their second win of the season . |
| 7 | By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once . |
| 8 | Doubt was only their first reaction . |
| 9 | Hodkinson 's defeat was only his second loss in 24 contests and he has since vowed to regain his title . |
| 10 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 11 | When Lynch beat Jackie Brown ( of Collyhurst ) at Belle Vue , Manchester , overwhelmingly in two rounds in September 1935 , it was only his third contest outside Scotland in five years of professional boxing . |
| 12 | Party Politics became Gaselee 's first winner in 1992 and was only his 11th success of the season . |
| 13 | Harry Collyer was a local boy from nearby Bromley , who joined us in September 1906 for what was only our second season , after impressing in a pre-season trial game . |
| 14 | ‘ Our visit to Debbie this year was only my second time in Italy . ’ |
| 15 | The site of the second photograph on the film was thus their first port of call . |
| 16 | Evidently English was not their first language . |
| 17 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 18 | It was not his first win . |
| 19 | She comments , ‘ It was not my first career choice but it is satisfying in many respects ’ . |
| 20 | So I swapped Nigel for Oliver , which was always my second name . |
| 21 | This place was always my last line of defence , when they … when they came to get me … ’ |
| 22 | The latter , innocent of her husband 's malice , was probably its next target . |
| 23 | Cis was also his first conquest . |
| 24 | It was also his first signal to the Soviet press that old habits were no longer good enough . |
| 25 | ‘ I was getting a bit anxious , because today was realistically my last chance to do it on turf , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It was really my first experience of journalism . |
| 27 | But that was really my first encounter with the police . |
| 28 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 29 | The trip to Wales was simply my first idea . |
| 30 | It was n't me last night ! |