Example sentences of "[noun] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 2 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
| 3 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 4 | Thereafter , the caretaker was his man , glad of a chance to finger ‘ that man ’ who had moved in with his girlfriend on the eighth floor . |
| 5 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 6 | No longer weeping , she was in déshabillé and , Anne noticed , was wearing the prince 's ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 7 | As she did he saw the ring on the third finger of her left hand ; the large diamond sparkled brightly . |
| 8 | Thomas Stocking produced the rococo plasterwork in all the main rooms , and in the eastern bedroom on the first floor there are plaster birds flying overhead . |
| 9 | But Jitka , Katya and Clara O'Neil , aged seven , four and two respectively , were taking every advantage of their father Denis , referred to by them as Pops , because their mother Hana was in the big bedroom on the first floor awaiting the arrival of her fourth child at any minute . |
| 10 | In the bedroom on the first floor Philip woke as the sun came up . |
| 11 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 14 | He often sleeps in the study rather than in the big bedroom on the second floor , where mine is . |
| 15 | For just under a £150,000 the tower offers a sitting room in the basement , a dining room on the first floor … one bedroom on the second floor then up the stairs again to the top bedroom … plus the view from the top … |
| 16 | 1 bag of apples ( to stave off starvation in the Chinese Bedroom on the fourth floor ) |
| 17 | As a final straw , on going to change Perdita discovered she 'd got the curse , which was invariably as bloody as Culloden on the first day . |
| 18 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 19 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 20 | Judgment for the defendant on the fourth plea . |
| 21 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 22 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
| 23 | ‘ Through the offices on the first floor . ’ |
| 24 | By early evening they had reached the documentary department offices on the second floor and in one desk , at the back of an open drawer , was the pair of scissors . |
| 25 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |
| 26 | Can we go to the State Department first ? ( laughter ) Listen , I 'll give you some offices on the sixth floor . |
| 27 | Alternatively , if you can afford it , you can continue paying the premiums on the first policy as well as taking out your second joint endowment . |
| 28 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 29 | Although rain ruled out any real chance of a positive result on the last day the Leewards batsmen never batted with enough urgency having established a first innings lead . |
| 30 | Racing : Braiswick brings era to a close : Richard Edmondson on the last victory for a racing dynasty before it becomes absorbed by the Maktoum empire |