Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 2 | THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting . |
| 3 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 4 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 5 | 28–8–1866 Norman McLeod , an Elder , had ceased to attend public worship for the last year and two other Elders were sent to find out why , " when he assigned as reasons several charges against the Minister , that his preaching was neither law nor Gospel ; that he considered him aiming at himself personally in his preaching . " |
| 6 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 7 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 8 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 9 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 10 | In the 600cc class which should be the best of the day , Jim Moodie is fastest on 115.90 but if McCallen gets it together he can win this race for the third year in a row . |
| 11 | Knowing my shortcomings , Mum had taken charge of making curtains for George 's house and a week before the wedding she went to the market to find some fabric for the last pair . |
| 12 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 13 | With an unbroken horse you might try reining back in hand , while a mature horse might be asked to try half- pass for the first time . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 15 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 16 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 17 | Even the goalkeeper , Peter Schmeichel , came right upfield for the last of Manchester 's 14 corners . |
| 18 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 19 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 20 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 21 | David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time . |
| 22 | The existence of rumours of a conservative-reformist struggle received official acknowledgement for the first time on July 6 when the official -People 's Daily stated that they were being spread about by unnamed people " more poisonous than poisonous snakes " . |
| 23 | In the Congo he had hunted big game for the first time and in Abyssinia he took every opportunity to do so , and conveyed his enthusiasm to me when I was only a small boy . |
| 24 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 25 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 26 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 27 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 28 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |
| 29 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 30 | The victory maintained the monopoly of British and Irish-trained horses , who have now exported this prize for the last 11 years . |