Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] on the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ .
2 The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps .
3 I just thought it followed on the next page there
4 ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’
5 Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty .
6 The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ .
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