Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the bedroom on the first floor Philip woke as the sun came up . |
| 4 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 8 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 13 | The bomb , which was left in the bargain book department on the first floor of the store , destroyed four units . |
| 14 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 15 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 16 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 17 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 18 | Prime Factor was protested by Britain 's Canon Express for an infraction of the basic right-of-way rule on the first leg of the fourth race . |
| 19 | The interior of the Bond Street shop has been remodelled to incorporate a new showroom on the first floor . |
| 20 | In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion . |
| 21 | Well le , shall we take a vote on the first word and then decide whether it 's a park , a sports field or a a sports park or whatever ? |
| 22 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 23 | To win a seat on the first round in the constituency elections , a candidate would need an overall majority in a turnout of at least 50 pere cent ; if this was not achieved , a run-off vote would be held one week later . |
| 24 | Golfers on the course opposite the mansion were treated to the sight of the lady of the house going through her aerobic routine at the windows of the gymnasium on the first floor . |
| 25 | This is a split in two by the prominent crack of Scylla ( VS 4c ) — a fine , ever steepening line until a traverse left avoids the obvious direct finish ( E2 5c ) : one of only four lines on the crag to have used aid on the first ascent . |
| 26 | At the end of the spacious triple-arched trainshed a heavily corniced three-storey frontage block was built at the head of twin flights of balustraded stairs rising to the entrance on the first floor . |
| 27 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 28 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 29 | Thus this work on the first century of Ottoman history bears the marks of the great disappointment at the collapse of Bayezid 's empire . |
| 30 | Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots . |