Example sentences of "was [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she knew the plans were afoot to move her on her concern was for her second in command , a Sinhalese whom she considered worthy of being leader . |
| 2 | It was for our second anniversary . |
| 3 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 4 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 5 | Talented but without driving ambition , Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson 's disease . |
| 6 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 7 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 8 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 9 | It was about their last overall assertion of authority , and was carried out smoothly and simultaneously so that the Indonesians were unable to reply . |
| 10 | It was about her twentieth attempt too . |
| 11 | Ben was after his tenth clocking under 10.10 in one season , achieving it with 10.06 seconds . |
| 12 | It was after my first London show and the club staff said he wanted to meet me . |
| 13 | It was like my first Christmas . |
| 14 | ‘ Not if some big flatfoot is just going to barge in on her and say I 'm shouting it all over town I was with her last night . ’ |
| 15 | I was thinking , what am I doing in this medical school , having a shit time ? ’ , and I was with my first and last girlfriend . |
| 16 | Elinor , who usually took it upon herself to criticize all aspects of her daughter 's behaviour , was into her third sherry . |
| 17 | Katherine was into her third week of term . |
| 18 | Those who have actual memories of the year are unlikely to have been party to the Party that was supposed to be the mythical Swinging Sixties — one of the authors was still unafflicted by puberty while the other was into his third year in a sheet-metal factory , so we certainly were n't invited . |
| 19 | Pamela was in her 4th year at St Hilda 's she was a devout member of the 7th Day Adventist Church and had planned to become a missionary in Japan after completing her University studies . |
| 20 | Lilian was in her second childhood and Harriet was expecting her second child , which she secretly despised . |
| 21 | Nancy was in her second week . |
| 22 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 23 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 24 | She had borne seven children and was in her fifty-first year in 1773 , when , on that September Sunday evening she entertained , and played hostess overnight , to her famous English visitor and his plump little annotator from Edinburgh , who wrote of Flora : ‘ She is a little woman , of a genteel appearance , and uncommonly mild and well-bred . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But that was in her first rage . |
| 26 | With regard to the second patient , recent correspondence with her general practitioner reveals that she initially developed intermittent leftsided headache and right hypoaesthesia without motor signs 3 years ago when she was in her first pregnancy . |
| 27 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 28 | ( In fact , by the time the book actually appeared , she was in her last year of school . ) |
| 29 | Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage . |
| 30 | However , it was in her fourth novel , A Wreath of Roses ( 1949 ) , that Elizabeth really arrived . |