Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 2 | On one wall hangs ‘ The Oath of Princess Isabel ’ , a painting by Victor Meirelles of Lima executed in 1872 to celebrate her first regency . |
| 3 | In 1985 came his first major screen role as the Russian sailor Sergei in the 1985 British film , A Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 4 | Jackman triumphed 9–2 4–9 6–9 9–2 to reach her first world tour final since losing in the Australian Open to Susan Devoy last August . |
| 5 | Lindsey celebrated the tenth anniversary of owning this large aircraft in August and on December 14 the F4U-7 celebrated its 40th birthday . |
| 6 | Sri Lanka ended up needing 140 to record their first Test win over England and only their fourth success in 43 Tests since they joined the big league in 1982 . |
| 7 | World No 50 Roe upset the form book by beating top 16 candidate Darren Morgan of Wales 5–2 to reach his second ranking quarter-final of the season . |
| 8 | GUITAR OF THE YEAR 1993 WIN A CUSTOM PRS CUSTOM 10 TOP Our second Guitar Of The Year competition gives you the chance to win the product which came out a clear winner in the ‘ most desired instrument ’ section of our 1992 readership survey … |
| 9 | September 1991 saw their first entry into a small local dog show and they parked next to a couple with two Dobermans who knew what dog showing was all about . |
| 10 | All three passed their first accounting examinations . |
| 11 | Leaders from 52 member countries of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) assembled in Helsinki , Finland , on July 9-10 to attend their first follow-up summit meeting since signing the Paris accord in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 12 | Newly crowned league champions Dublin are 3/1 to win their first senior All Ireland in 10 years , with Cork 9/2 , Kerry 9/2 , Donegal 7/1 , Meath 9/1 , Derry 10/1 , Down 10/1 , Kildare 10/1 and Mayo 12/1 . |
| 13 | Only in 1941 did he first hold significant office in the Orange Order , reaching the highest rank in 1949 on his election as imperial grand master of the Grand Orange council of the world . |
| 14 | Montgomerie 's halfway aggregate of 141 puts him seventh equal . |
| 15 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 16 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 17 | The African National Congress ( ANC ) on July 2-7 held its 48th national conference in Durban , the first inside South Africa for 32 years , and elected a new 55-member national executive committee ( NEC ) . |
| 18 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |
| 19 | It was Bates , however , with two serves in hand , who held and took the tie-break 7–5 to claim his second singles title . |
| 20 | John Major on March 5 paid his first visit to Moscow as United Kingdom Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Pope John Paul II paid his second visit to Mexico on May 6-13 ( his 10th to Latin America ) and was welcomed at the airport by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , an act criticized by opposition parties since Mexico had no diplomatic relations with the Vatican . |
| 22 | Pope John Paul II paid his second visit to Brazil on Oct 12-21 , visiting 10 cities , and appealing for social justice for native peoples , landless peasants and street children , while maintaining his strictures against birth control and divorce . |
| 23 | President Alberto Keinya Fujimori outlined a package of economic reforms in a speech delivered on Nov. 4 to mark his 100th day in office . |
| 24 | SUSSEX SOCIETY OF REFEREES are organising a residential conference at Sussex University from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September 1992 to mark their 60th year . |
| 25 | Pope John Paul II began his sixth tour of Africa on Jan. 25 , visiting Cape Verde ( Jan. 25-26 ) , Guinea-Bissau ( Jan. 27-28 ) , Mali ( Jan. 28 ) , Burkina ( Jan. 29-30 ) and Chad ( Jan. 30-Feb. 1 ) . |
| 26 | 1992 saw her first solo show , I Will Always be Here , commissioned by the Ikon Gallery , Birmingham . |
| 27 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 28 | For a significant minority in our simple , illegally young : 1 man in 5 had his first experience of sexual intercourse before the age of consent ( 16 ) . |
| 29 | Earlier , as the Chamber of Representatives on Oct. 17 held its first session for the parliamentary year 1991-92 , it was announced that a new opposition grouping , the National Movement ( MN ) , had been formed under the leadership of the veteran Berber politician Mahjoubi Aherdane , who in 1957 had founded his Popular Movement party ( MP ) . |
| 30 | England 's Under-15s gained their first win of the season , 3–0 , against Northern Ireland before a crowd of 3,944 at the Goldstone Ground , Brighton . |