Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 2 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 3 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 4 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 7 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 8 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 9 | Think of yourself on the 19th ( the day of the full Moon ) . |
| 10 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 11 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 12 | ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’ |
| 13 | Your disks should be with you on the next working day after we receive your order . |
| 14 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 15 | He had expected to sweep Rachel off her feet and carry her off to New Zealand with him on the next sailing , but he had reckoned without her Jewish father and mother , the new Zionism and Rachel herself . |
| 16 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 17 | ‘ We shall see how we deal with it on the next album , ’ Colin concludes . |
| 18 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 19 | She 'll be with us on the 17th . |
| 20 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 21 | We look forward to hearing more from you on the fourteenth of June erm but next week my subject will be based on another lecture topic , quite a different one . |
| 22 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 23 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 24 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 25 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 26 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 27 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 28 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 29 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 30 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |