Example sentences of "he was [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
2 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
3 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
4 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
5 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
6 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
7 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
8 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
9 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
10 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
11 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
12 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
13 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
14 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
15 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
16 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
17 | Colt would have liked his father to know how he was spending the next few days . |
18 | He got up and was about to return to his house to wash the dirt from Meg 's grave from his hands when Cranston swaggered in , throwing the door open as if he was announcing the Second Coming . |
19 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |
20 | Now he was placing the last , low down on her wrist . |