Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] on the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for Hammersmith and Fulham , was presenting the council 's case on the fifth day of a hearing in which the district auditor is seeking to have the transactions declared ultra vires , or beyond the local authority 's legal powers . |
| 2 | Karpov played a relatively recent refinement of white 's play on the seventh move . |
| 3 | The effect of the Court 's decision on the second appeal was that the trial judge should have allowed the jury to hear the way in which the appellant had answered the questions of the police . |
| 4 | A gleaming chequered-tile floor , satin-sheen walls , a chandelier of dripping crystals and a carved mahogany staircase that was carpeted all the way to Nadirpur 's apartment on the fifth floor . |
| 5 | Gloria came to do Ruth 's hair on the first Monday of every month . |
| 6 | Crisp soars over Becher 's Brook on the second circuit . |
| 7 | The longer the race went on , the better Devon Loch jumped , and as he soared over Becher 's Brook on the second circuit no runner was going better : the Queen Mother 's dream of winning the Grand National was about to come true . |
| 8 | At Becher 's Brook on the second circuit he put in a stupendous leap , pitched on landing but was confidently gathered together by Champion to continue on his triumphant way , pursued by Rubstic and Royal Mail . |
| 9 | Aldaniti at Becher 's Brook on the second circuit . |
| 10 | Approaching Becher 's Brook on the second circuit Freddie and Different Class were moving into challenging positions behind the leaders , who were accompanied by two loose horses . |
| 11 | He had leapt with ease over the fearsome Becher 's Brook on the second circuit , but he was tiring and had no jockey to keep him going . |
| 12 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 13 | And he saw the ring , his ring , that she was wearing openly for the occasion , beside Anne Mowbray 's wedding-ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 14 | No longer weeping , she was in déshabillé and , Anne noticed , was wearing the prince 's ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 15 | Duke of Gloucester 's run on the first mid-week North Wales Coast Express was hit by a number of problems none of which were as a result of problems with the locomotive . |
| 16 | Bachelors have their staircase at the front of the house off the entrance hall ; young ladies theirs from the mistress 's boudoir on the first floor to their bedrooms above it . |
| 17 | Beside the laird 's hall on the third floor a window embrasure was converted into a small private oratory for her use . |
| 18 | They returned to the Grand Hotel , ascended together to Harvey 's room on the second floor , drew the curtains and placed a bedside lamp on the floor . |
| 19 | Today he heard screams coming from Mary Duncan 's room on the first floor as soon as he entered the house . |
| 20 | A pattern-maker 's shop on the first floor houses a collection of tools , models and displays of the Society 's collection . |
| 21 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 22 | He struck out Samuel Revill 's name on the second note . |
| 23 | 11.10 : The first blast rocks a men 's toilet on the third floor in John Lewis 's store as customers and staff are leaving . |
| 24 | At the height of the first day 's debate on the Second Reading of the Local Government Finance Bill , there were six Labour Back-Bench Members present . |
| 25 | 2–11–1911 As " it was impossible for the congregation to meet on the Sabbath the 5th day of November owing to the stormy weather prevailing that day " they resolved to dispense the Lord 's Supper on the next Sabbath . |
| 26 | The US pair returned a 28-under-par combined four-round total of 548 , and US Masters champion Couples declared : ‘ Davis 's putt on the last green won it for us , and I feel very sorry for Per-Ulrik . |
| 27 | The criticism of anthropology , from Lévy-Bruhl 's attack on the nineteenth century to Lévi-Strauss 's critique of Lévy-Bruhl , followed by Derrida 's deconstructions of Lévi-Strauss , has largely been an expulsion of perceived romanticism . |
| 28 | A guard ushered them into the Beauchamp Tower and up into Mistress Philippa 's chamber on the second floor . |
| 29 | The convent building was high and Dame Elizabeth 's chamber on the second storey . |
| 30 | The first task , to put the ladder up to Catherine 's office on the 4th floor . |