Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 2 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 3 | ‘ During one practice session , ’ writes Iain , ‘ I perpetrated the highest , latest and crudest tackle of my life on the first XI 's star player , a footballer of considerable skill . |
| 4 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 5 | I put my hand on the last page , and hesitated . |
| 6 | To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty |
| 7 | It 's my birthday on the thirteenth . |
| 8 | I think it is , and therefore my judgment on the first demurrer is for the plaintiff . |
| 9 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 10 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 11 | And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up . |
| 12 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 13 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |
| 14 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 15 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 16 | Mr Major replied : ‘ It is for this House to decide by its vote on the third reading whether to approve the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill and enable the Government to ratify the treaty . |
| 17 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 18 | Will he join me in expressing our deep respect , our loyal affection and our good wishes to Her Majesty on the 40th anniversary of her accession ? |
| 19 | Damian asked during a lull in their lovemaking on the second day . |
| 20 | It is difficult to generalise , but we all thought that the pupils related their work on the Second World War to the current conflict in the Gulf . |
| 21 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital and Comforts Fund celebrated the centenary of their hospital sing in 1986 , the event having been continuous since its inception on the 31st July 1887 . |
| 22 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 23 | but equally we now know until the Daily Telegraph published its article on the ninth of January nineteen eighty eight , some of these brochures with this representation or claim was still in circulation to the general public you know that ? |
| 24 | Desperation to escape also helped her to find her way through the labyrinth of passageways , up to her room on the second floor . |
| 25 | One very warm morning in June 1936 a young woman left her room on the fourth floor of a pensione at the west end of the Riviera di Chiaia and descended to street level . |
| 26 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 27 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 28 | The Governors recorded their thanks at their meeting on the last day of 1928 . |
| 29 | The earliest of these postscripts to survive dates from the day after their departure on the first trip ( 12 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |