Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 2 | My father 's tour with 112 Squadron finished at the end of May and on the 31st Sgt Pilot Davis flew FX740 for the first and last time , sadly being shot down by ack-ack in the vicinity of Frosinone , south of Rome . |
| 3 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 4 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 5 | There , among the long grass , as she had expected , were four graves instead of three , four wooden crosses and on the fourth was printed in black gloss paint : Melusina , the Queen of the Cats , murdered in her sixth year . |
| 6 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 7 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 8 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 9 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 10 | It was an ancient custom that on the fourth day of her menstruation , when a woman had taken her ritual bath , her husband was honour-bound to have intercourse with her . |
| 11 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 12 | They travelled for days and on the third entered the Lauderdale valley . |
| 13 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 14 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 15 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 16 | Up to this point , West had shown up with 4 Clubs and 3 Hearts and on the last Club had discarded a Spade . |
| 17 | Pigs are good because with one along there is no need to bring a toilet and on the last night the pig can be eaten . |
| 18 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 19 | In July 1908 the railway was ready for traffic and on the 19th a daily freight train commenced to run . |
| 20 | He did a little planning and on the next afternoon , in spite of the restrictions on his movements , he was able to keep his word . |
| 21 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 22 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 23 | Are the answers at the back of the book or on the next page or are they in another book ( this would mean extra expense ) ? 16 Does the student learn inductively or solely deductively ? 17 Are the topics and stories interesting and appropriate or are they dull and irrelevant to your students ' needs ? |
| 24 | They provided interim employment and on the second , a further chance for Nicholson to hone his writing talents , since he both acted in it , and wrote the screenplay . |
| 25 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 26 | Pressing TAB while on the last page of the mail message will also take you to the Print/Retain/Delete prompt . |
| 27 | A few extracts I believe will suffice : March 11th , 1335 , he carried out an ordination , the following day , March 12th the first tonsure of seven clerks and on the 15th , another ordination . |
| 28 | With these new reinforcements about 4000 men were , by early January 1746 , assembled at Perth and on the 3rd Charles left Glasgow to besiege Stirling . |
| 29 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
| 30 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |