Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 2 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 3 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 4 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 5 | The Timer IC2 is connected as a monostable — that is , once triggered in this way the output , pin 3 , goes high for a certain time then reverts to low . |
| 6 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 7 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 8 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 9 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 10 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 11 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 12 | In their latest show , ‘ New Democratic Pictures ’ ( the first in Britain for three years ) , Gilbert and George ( who often appear alongside their exclusively male models ) pose naked for the first time . |
| 13 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 14 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 15 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 16 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 17 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 18 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 19 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 20 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 21 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 22 | Then he attacked with venom and had Thornton looking troubled for the only time in the fight . |
| 23 | Finally , especially if you are living alone for the first time , invest in some small cooking dishes and fridge/freezer containers . |
| 24 | Relatives often seem to feel that they do not need to bring a contribution , unless , of course , you are young , living alone for the first time and being visited by your mother , in which case she will probably bring a month 's supply of food and wash up for you as well ! |
| 25 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 26 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 27 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 28 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 30 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |