Example sentences of "was on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hotel Normandie was on the fifth floor of one of the tall buildings overlooking the east harbour . |
| 2 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 5 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Also , his youngest daughter 's birthday was on the 8th . |
| 8 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 9 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 10 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 11 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 12 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 13 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 14 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 15 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 16 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 17 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 18 | He made an immediate impression and by 4 December 1640 was on the first committee . |
| 19 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 20 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 21 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 22 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 23 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 24 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 25 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 26 | And the fair was on the first of October . |
| 27 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 28 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 29 | That was on the first day . |
| 30 | It was on the first tape . |