Example sentences of "[verb] on the [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2–11–1911 As " it was impossible for the congregation to meet on the Sabbath the 5th day of November owing to the stormy weather prevailing that day " they resolved to dispense the Lord 's Supper on the next Sabbath . |
| 2 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 3 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 4 | It was a very nervous group , their fingers stained with nicotine , who assembled on the airfield the next day , but Stirling himself jumped first , followed by the rest of the detachment . |
| 5 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
| 6 | His walk was very brisk and he always carried a preoccupied expression as if his mind was centred on the way the next work of art might be tackled . |