Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere between the first drink on Christmas Eve ( at around 5pm ) and the first cup of tea on Christmas morning ( at around 5am ) , the fear evaporates , leaving in its place a wonderful feeling of contentment . |
| 2 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 3 | The EC troika arrived in Zagreb on Aug. 2 but talks in Belgrade broke down after the third round on Aug. 4 which Milosevic boycotted . |
| 4 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
| 5 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 6 | That is why Lloyd 's now needs to question its hallowed notion of unlimited liability , which makes names liable down to the last button on their boxer shorts . |
| 7 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 8 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 9 | The mother and daughter walked on towards the third door on the other side of the corridor and which led into Mrs Funnell 's room . |
| 10 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 11 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 12 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |
| 13 | His hands strayed down to a spot just below the first frill on her skirt and he pushed his hips against hers so that she could clearly feel the bulge between his legs . |
| 14 | Only two candidates ( Dominique Voynet in the Jura and Christine Barthet in Haut-Rhin ) managed to get through to the second round on March 28 but neither was then elected . |
| 15 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 16 | On 17 April , several days after the conclusion of the protest , the government announced its intention to raise teachers ' salaries and spend more in the next year on education . |
| 17 | At Reims , for instance , the process of fortification , begun early in the fourteenth century on the orders of Philip IV , was later abandoned , only to be reactivated after the English victory at Crécy . |
| 18 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 19 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 20 | Even in the towns , where officials were concentrated , the government had to rely right into the nineteenth century on reluctant elected townsmen to carry out a host of fiscal , economic , and general administrative functions . |
| 21 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 22 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 23 | He cleaned up in the 12th frame on his way to a 9–4 defeat of Ken Doherty in the third round of the UK Championship at Preston . |
| 24 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 25 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 26 | A further extension through this horizon is then possible up to the next surface on which or at which the space-time again splits into two separating gravitational waves which are the time reverse of the initial approaching waves . |
| 27 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 28 | While Pavel set out for the next town on his list . |
| 29 | Against a Coventry side in no fit state to make much of a fist of it , Liley was away like the wind midway through the second half on a 45-yard run for the second of Leicester 's four tries . |
| 30 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |