Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] be [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The block is three storeys high and my apartment was on the second floor . |
| 2 | My concern is on the first page , the grammatical errors in the |
| 3 | My birthday is on the first of — What could that last month be ? |
| 4 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 5 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 6 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 7 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 8 | Her flat was on the third floor with its windows looking towards the river . |
| 9 | The invitation had been meant not for Sir Ralph Grunte , but for his colleague , Sir Ralph Howell , a Norfolk Tory of the old school whose granddaughter was in the fifth form . |
| 10 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 11 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 12 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 13 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 14 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 15 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 16 | And retired soldiers from his army were among the first of the century 's numerous British settlers in Pau . |
| 17 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |
| 18 | Our room is on the first floor . |
| 19 | Your room 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Your grandmother is in the second cart . ’ |
| 21 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 22 | Your mother was among the first batch of evacuees , too , like Lilian . |