Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last two stitches on the right , place the end stitch on to the next needle to keep the 1 × 1 rib pattern . |
| 2 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 3 | Folly saw a glimpse of gold , and something that sparkled , then caught her breath as he slipped a narrow band on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor . |
| 5 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 6 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 7 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 8 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 9 | But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term . |
| 10 | By the time he got to the ice-cream he was too weary to eat , so he downed the bourbon — which instantly took its toll — and retired to bed , leaving the television on in the next room , its sound turned down to a soporific burble . |
| 11 | Maslow argued that as one need is met then the individual moves on to the next need . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Hold this left transfer tool in your left hand and take the three stitches at right of centre on to the second transfer tool in the same way . |
| 14 | If we translate the colloquial meaning of ‘ nice guy ’ into its Darwinian equivalent , a nice guy is an individual that assists other members of its species , at its own expense , to pass their genes on to the next generation . |
| 15 | I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place . |
| 16 | A blur of lights as a quick thinking cameraman locks on to the first Patriot missile fired in war . |
| 17 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Devilishly handsome ’ Des , gushes his press release , will set ‘ hearts reeling ’ when people see him put the kettle on in the second Nescafe ‘ Fresh Start ’ ad . |
| 19 | Now a year on from the first rape , police are taking steps to protect women as the nights close in . |
| 20 | These details then lead the research worker on to the next step , which is that of drawing the threads together . |
| 21 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 22 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |