Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " 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 Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 6 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 7 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 8 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 9 | 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 . ] . |
| 10 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 11 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 12 | The room was on the second floor of the three-storey building , its curtains drawn , its inhabitants hidden from those below . |
| 13 | Duncan 's room was on the seventh floor . |
| 14 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 15 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 16 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 21 | The King was in the second room . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 24 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 25 | Her flat was on the third floor with its windows looking towards the river . |
| 26 | Clarissa 's flat was on the eighth floor and its acquisition had been another good thing that summer . |
| 27 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 28 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 29 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 30 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |