Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 2 | Thereafter , the caretaker was his man , glad of a chance to finger ‘ that man ’ who had moved in with his girlfriend on the eighth floor . |
| 3 | No longer weeping , she was in déshabillé and , Anne noticed , was wearing the prince 's ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 4 | As she did he saw the ring on the third finger of her left hand ; the large diamond sparkled brightly . |
| 5 | Thomas Stocking produced the rococo plasterwork in all the main rooms , and in the eastern bedroom on the first floor there are plaster birds flying overhead . |
| 6 | But Jitka , Katya and Clara O'Neil , aged seven , four and two respectively , were taking every advantage of their father Denis , referred to by them as Pops , because their mother Hana was in the big bedroom on the first floor awaiting the arrival of her fourth child at any minute . |
| 7 | In the bedroom on the first floor Philip woke as the sun came up . |
| 8 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 9 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 10 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 11 | He often sleeps in the study rather than in the big bedroom on the second floor , where mine is . |
| 12 | For just under a £150,000 the tower offers a sitting room in the basement , a dining room on the first floor … one bedroom on the second floor then up the stairs again to the top bedroom … plus the view from the top … |
| 13 | 1 bag of apples ( to stave off starvation in the Chinese Bedroom on the fourth floor ) |
| 14 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 15 | Judgment for the defendant on the fourth plea . |
| 16 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 17 | Although rain ruled out any real chance of a positive result on the last day the Leewards batsmen never batted with enough urgency having established a first innings lead . |
| 18 | In the Middle East , Rommel was inflicting defeat after defeat on the Eighth Army . |
| 19 | The besieged President refused to concede defeat on the last day of his campaign yesterday . |
| 20 | There is a huge dining-room on the seventh floor , with seating for over a thousand , and the Galaxia Night Club on the ninth floor has panoramic views of the bay of Funchal . |
| 21 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 22 | The substantial lunch sent Leonora to sleep in the car on the next stage of the journey . |
| 23 | Four of us were jammed in one compartment on the first leg of my journey — a train full of soldiers bound from the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to Irkutsk , described as the Paris of Siberia , some 36 hours away . |
| 24 | With a tail as fragile as the West Indies ' , South Africa were uncomfortable at 188 for four at tea on the second day but the durable Hudson and Adrian Kuiper saw them through to the close without further loss against a lacklustre attack . |
| 25 | Their third win in 42 Tests came 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day and was their first over the Kiwis in 11 Tests since the two countries first met at this level in 1982-83 . |
| 26 | The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable ; by soon after tea on the third day , West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared , with 50 from Fredericks , 135 from Richards , and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England . |
| 27 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 28 | Outside the research on the 19th century is Margaret Miles ' study of the ‘ Virgin 's One Bare Breast ’ which analyses nudity , gender and religion in Tuscan Early Renaissance culture and Natalie Kampen 's ‘ The Muted Other : Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and 18th Century Europe ’ . |
| 29 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 30 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |