Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 4 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 5 | This applied , I planned the routes for the next weekend . |
| 6 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 7 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 8 | So the song ‘ Sunday Papers ’ has had to go ( 'I re-wrote the lyrics for the last tour - called it ‘ Monday Papers ’ . |
| 9 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 10 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 11 | Although there are moves to define the requirements for a next generation user environment , UEC II ( UX No 391 ) , which will be a ‘ highly evolved ’ version of Motif , that wo n't be around until 1995 , and there are some more immediate issues that need to be addressed , according to IXI . |
| 12 | When the athletic Can Can girls had done the splits for the umpteenth time , the old master , 83-year-old George Williams , played on the state of his health . |
| 13 | If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time , then they will virtually be home and dry . |
| 14 | In the other quarter-final , 12th-seeded Czech Helena Sukova held off Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria 6–4 6–7 6–3 to return to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1987 . |
| 15 | Swansea , the Heineken League leaders , were restricted to only two tries in their 14–6 win over Dunvant to reach the semi-finals for the third successive season . |
| 16 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 17 | Republic of Ireland U-21 player Byrne , from Dublin , was the star of the show as Bangor scored their first ever Irish Cup win over Linfield to reach the semis for the first time in 25 years . |
| 18 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 19 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 20 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 21 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 22 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 23 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |
| 24 | As I climbed the stairs for the second time that morning , more wearily this time , I heard the sound of a keg being gently turned in a lock . |
| 25 | L it 's presenting the changes for the next year er are really so we can have a two way and a two big . |
| 26 | Mike Rayer will take over the No 15 jersey from Clement and will face the tourists for the second time this season following his recent appearance for the Wales B team . |
| 27 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 28 | Shutting the gates for the last time … |
| 29 | Their hard-nosed ‘ method ’ rugby and its ultimate reward when they blitzed the Springboks for the first two-thirds of the test at Ellis Park to build an unassailable 20–3 lead . |
| 30 | Right , we we 're not doing the minutes for the tenth of January because you 've only just got the copies this evening so that 's being erm , we 'll go through those at the next meeting . |