Example sentences of "[noun] was on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 4 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 9 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 10 | The room was on the second floor of the three-storey building , its curtains drawn , its inhabitants hidden from those below . |
| 11 | Duncan 's room was on the seventh floor . |
| 12 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 13 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 14 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 15 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 16 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 17 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 18 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 19 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 20 | Her flat was on the third floor with its windows looking towards the river . |
| 21 | Clarissa 's flat was on the eighth floor and its acquisition had been another good thing that summer . |
| 22 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 23 | Er this item was on the last agenda . |
| 24 | Consider the two sentences : [ 1 ] John Smith 's birthday was on the twenty-fourth of June . |
| 25 | Also , his youngest daughter 's birthday was on the 8th . |
| 26 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 27 | The upshot of this meeting was that Muldoon phoned Mueller and Klepner was on the next plane to Detroit with photostat copies of Mark 's plan , for Mueller 's eyes only . |
| 28 | The Hotel Normandie was on the fifth floor of one of the tall buildings overlooking the east harbour . |
| 29 | The block is three storeys high and my apartment was on the second floor . |
| 30 | The office housing the records relating to contracts was on the fourth floor and was totally destroyed . |