Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 8 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 9 | The weekend 's other draw was in the First , between the upstarts and the fallen mighty . |
| 10 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 11 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 12 | 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 . ] . |
| 13 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 14 | Owers only cup appearance was in the third round win over Port Vale . |
| 15 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 16 | The room was on the second floor of the three-storey building , its curtains drawn , its inhabitants hidden from those below . |
| 17 | Duncan 's room was on the seventh floor . |
| 18 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 19 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 20 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 21 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 22 | ONE of the youngest potential victims of Chester 's tuberculosis scare was among the first to be tested for the disease yesterday . |
| 23 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 24 | Or s Pit was about the first one I seen w that had the that had baths pit head baths in this corner . |
| 25 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 26 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 27 | The King was in the second room . |
| 28 | Even as Andrew was assuring journalists at Sunninghill that he was hopeful he and Fergie could get back together , the Texan was in the next room , phoning around Fleet Street . |
| 29 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 30 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |