Example sentences of "[num] [verb] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 came his first major screen role as the Russian sailor Sergei in the 1985 British film , A Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was Bates , however , with two serves in hand , who held and took the tie-break 7–5 to claim his second singles title . |
| 5 | John Major on March 5 paid his first visit to Moscow as United Kingdom Prime Minister . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | President Alberto Keinya Fujimori outlined a package of economic reforms in a speech delivered on Nov. 4 to mark his 100th day in office . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Sir Dawda Jawara was sworn in as President on May 11 to begin his fifth consecutive term in office after winning 58.4 per cent of the votes in the presidential elections held on April 29 . |
| 12 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 13 | Five days after his coronation in 1424 , James I called his first parliament there , and later his third one . |
| 14 | The year 1712 saw his second copybook , The Art of Writing in its Theory and Practice , with a similarly critical preface . |
| 15 | Many of Constable 's paintings feature Willy Lott 's house and this sale of British paintings 1500–1850 includes his first rendering of this favourite subject . |
| 16 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , on March 20 presented his first budget — for the financial year 1990-91 ( to the beginning of April 1991 ) — which he described as " a saver 's budget " . |