Example sentences of "was the sixth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the sixth judge to be rejected by the judiciary committee during the past decade . |
| 2 | By a cruel irony , it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement . |
| 3 | He was the sixth child of working-class parents , Daniel Maclean , crofter and later potter , and his wife Annie McPhee , the grandson on one side of crofters evicted from Mull in the Highland clearances , on the other of migrants to industrial Strathclyde . |
| 4 | Charles Tennant ( 1768–1838 ) was the sixth son of old John Tennant and could not be employed on Glenconner Farm . |
| 5 | He was the sixth Briton to receive the award — Kipling , Tagore , Yeats , Shaw and Galsworthy were his predecessors . |
| 6 | It was the sixth time in a year he 'd been a victim of crime , but this time the culprits , two youths , had been arrested . |
| 7 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |