Example sentences of "on [pron] third [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm on my third divorce , did I tell you that ? ’ |
| 2 | ON MY third voyage as a cadet , on the way down to West Africa war was declared . |
| 3 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 4 | He has been at Salisbury for 21 years — ‘ I 'm on my third bishop , my fourth dean and my fifth clerk ’ . |
| 5 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 6 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 7 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 8 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures ( alongside ) , Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 9 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures — see below — Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 10 | A company spokesman said he did n't know whether the firm would break even on its third quarter just ended — results are due in a couple of weeks — but an improvement on its second quarter loss of $7.2m ( which followed a first quarter which ended $18m in the red ) is expected . |
| 11 | And as the Conservative Party was already on its third leader within thirteen months , this did not begin to be likely . |
| 12 | Of free will I chose to fly to India , taking as my travelling companions a stallion and two mares , in the back of a decrepit Boeing 707 on its third time round the clock . |
| 13 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 14 | On her third day with the unpacking hardly finished , she returned to her new home after taking her three young children to school to find the walls , doors and windows of her house daubed with this kind of graffiti : ’ wogs out ’ , ’ N.F. Rule ’ , ’ Kill Niggers ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd like that , would n't you ? ’ said Scarlet starting on her third vodka : this was the dangerous one , the one that tended to make her either sad or irritable , depending on her mood before opening the bottle . |
| 16 | She could feel him find the ring on her third finger , the one Peter had found in the snow one day and thrown across the shop counter to her when nobody had come to claim it . |
| 17 | She had her left hand raised , brushing back a strand of hair , and on her third finger was a half-hoop of diamonds . |
| 18 | ‘ The diamond on her third finger makes Liz Taylor 's look like a bauble from Woolies ! |
| 19 | His mother , by contrast , is the most vividly realised character in the book : nervy , flirtatious and selfish , already on her third husband , she thinks primarily of her appearance , even when visiting her dying daughter , Francis 's twin . |
| 20 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said on their third pint , ‘ the Wimbledon Poisoner used to use the back bar . ’ |
| 22 | On their third date he took her back to his surgery and raped her . |
| 23 | Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day . |
| 24 | Now they are on their third generation of RIP and second generation of PostScript imagesetters with the Linotronic 200P . |
| 25 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 26 | As he left , the engineers were on their third cup and discussing last week 's retirement party . |
| 27 | As Mr and Mrs Atkin from Newcastle , on their third Disney World visit , told me : ‘ Coming to Disney is about being in America . |
| 28 | There are three main reasons for this extraordinarily depressing decline : the debt crisis ; the brutal ‘ adjustment ’ policies thrust upon poor countries by the international financial institutions of the rich ; and the appalling decline in the commodity prices on which Third World countries depend . |
| 29 | She came into the bedroom on his third plea . |
| 30 | The remarkable navigator and cartographer circumnavigated the Antarctic but was killed in Hawaii on his third voyage . |