Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 2 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
| 3 | The aircraft was on the second leg of a trans-Atlantic flight from Europe to Canada via Iceland , with two pilots and five passengers on board . |
| 4 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 5 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 6 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 7 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 8 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 9 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 10 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 11 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 12 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 13 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 14 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 15 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 16 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 17 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 18 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 19 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 20 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 21 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 22 | The weekend 's other draw was in the First , between the upstarts and the fallen mighty . |
| 23 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 24 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 25 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 26 | His most significant appearance was at the second day of the Putney debates , where he was the only civilian present besides the legally trained and dialectically more skilled ( Sir ) John Wildman [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 28 | Owers only cup appearance was in the third round win over Port Vale . |
| 29 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 30 | The room was on the second floor of the three-storey building , its curtains drawn , its inhabitants hidden from those below . |