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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ So you still have n't decided to give the poor guy a break , even for the last day on set ? ’ |
| 14 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the concept has been developed to include accessibility and this use is discussed more fully in the next chapter on Rural Transport and Accessibility . |
| 16 | We cross the Atlantic again for the hundredth release on Chandos by conductor Neeme Järvi , a gold-plated CD with a special booklet listing all 100 titles . |
| 17 | This attractive young Woodbrook player , three down on the 13th , seemed to have a superb match against Eavan Higgins all wrapped up after jumping ahead for the first time on the 17th , but lost her ‘ thinking cap ’ completely down the last . |
| 18 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |