Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montgomerie 's halfway aggregate of 141 puts him seventh equal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the 18th century wore on , families could expect to see more and more of their children reach adulthood ; nevertheless , the survival rate of Charles and Elizabeth 's offspring — only six out of 13 reached their twenty-first birthday — is certainly nothing abnormal for the period . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On one wall hangs ‘ The Oath of Princess Isabel ’ , a painting by Victor Meirelles of Lima executed in 1872 to celebrate her first regency . |
| 6 | In 1985 came his first major screen role as the Russian sailor Sergei in the 1985 British film , A Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Before The Ring Culshaw , Nilsson and Björling had come together in 1961 to record her first complete Verdi role , Amelia in Un ballo in maschera . |
| 12 | THE annual conference of the Systems Dynamics Society , which in 1994 celebrates its 10th anniversary , will be held at Stirling University in July . |
| 13 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 14 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 15 | The Commission in 1990 completed its first investigation into human rights in Iran since the revolution of 1979 . |
| 16 | She has been included in many mixed shows and in 1990 held her first sell-out one-woman exhibition at The Scottish Gallery , London . |
| 17 | It did n't finish till five to twelve did it last Sunday ? |
| 18 | A carpenter 's daughter , Unity Hall was born at Wembley , Middlesex , on Sept 21 1928 and at 16 had her first story published in Woman 's World . |