Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the tenth " in BNC.

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1 … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme .
2 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
3 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
4 As Mahmood , the secretary of the strike committee , put it in the tenth month of the strike : ‘ When the women first joined Grunwick they were just like ordinary women .
5 And if you do it on the tenth
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