Example sentences of "was [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beirut : His first embassy posting was as a Third Secretary in Beirut . |
| 2 | It was like a second honeymoon . |
| 3 | Mr Sadler said Sunnie was like a second mother to him . |
| 4 | Sally , the wife who was like a second mother to the Inspector Wexford star 's four daughters , ca n't be with him in Australia to share this moment . |
| 5 | Interestingly , she added to that : ‘ Every shot was like a first night . ’ |
| 6 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 7 | Another camera was bolted to one of the aircraft , yet another was in a third observer aircraft , as the formation took off from Rendcombe 's grass runway . |
| 8 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 9 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 10 | The system was 6 miles long , the voltage was 525 D.C. and current collection was by a third rail , central until 1905 , then outside . |