Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilcox looked startled , caught off balance for the first time . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 3 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 4 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |
| 5 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 6 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 7 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 8 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 9 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 10 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 12 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 13 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 14 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 15 | Ruth paid in advance for the first night . |
| 16 | Nuclear Scientists working at the Joint European Torus project in Oxfordshire will be going on strike for the second time . |
| 17 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 18 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 19 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 20 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
| 21 | This is because as Dickens wrote his novels as weekly instalments he had to put enough into each instalment whether it be a couple of chapters or many , enough to captivate his readers and cause them to wait with eagerness for the next instalment . |
| 22 | His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening . |
| 23 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 24 | To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury . |
| 25 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 26 | It was Rush 's 287th goal in a record-breaking career and few can have been better , cancelling out Niall Quinn 's opener and leaving this fixture locked in stalemate for the third successive season . |
| 27 | Which was amazing as we started working together far too late , there was a shoestring budget , dancers speaking on stage for the first time . |
| 28 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 29 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 30 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |