Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other successes for Central South teams ; Martin Brundle coming home in 4th for Benetton , Mauricio Gugelmin in 7th ; that 's Jordan 's best result of the year . |
| 2 | John , who is a former stock car racer , said : ‘ Silverstone was so long we were flat out in fifth for most of the way . |
| 3 | He apologised for NeXTStep 3.0 being 60 days late , claimed that Mach is object-oriented and that a bit of Unix is only dragged along in NeXT for compatibility . |
| 4 | Talking about clothes from Next for women |
| 5 | and erm , she phoned me the night before last for the results come through |
| 6 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 7 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 8 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 9 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 10 | The production of Mark 3 vehicles , at first for the High Speed Trains , began in 1975 , but the proportion of even top-grade express trains composed of them in the early 1980s was stili small . |
| 11 | Michael Hardman , Graham Lees , Bill Mellor and Jim Makin decided to launch CAMRA , which stood at first for the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale . |
| 12 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 13 | But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story . |
| 14 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 15 | He was able to go to the same home for respite care , at first for two weeks in and six weeks at home , on a rota . |
| 16 | Competition , feared at first for its degenerative effects on programme quality , was rationalized as consistent with public service principles , because it was not driven by competition for a single source of revenue , as in the USA , but ensured a proper sensitivity to audience needs . |
| 17 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 18 | Surprised villagers , grateful at first for free entry to anything , crept away from improvised stage sketches in a prepared nonlanguage . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Hughes was responsible at first for most of the teaching , and had no assistant except a resident housekeeper . |
| 20 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 21 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 22 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |
| 23 | Back in the changing rooms , the only drink to celebrate at first for financially pressed Oxford was tea … |
| 24 | Fame at last for brickies ' champion |
| 25 | a stage at last for your favourite Pier Head story |
| 26 | The forest floor is safe at last for us to walk on ! |
| 27 | Anna felt , with a sudden pain , huge affection for her mother , for the house of her childhood , at last for her dead father . |
| 28 | Despite relegation on the last day of the season ( which he regards as something of a relief , peace at last for a terminally ill football team ) , his favourite , most lovingly cherished day of suffering remains April 13 , 1985 . |
| 29 | The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world ! |
| 30 | He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock . |