Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 2 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 3 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 4 | In the course of twenty-five years of persistent pioneering work , he was responsible for novel design features , such as the duplex condenser ( 1924 ) , objective changer ( 1926 ) , and cone condenser ( 1930 ) , the last allowing for the first time ultraviolet , dark-ground photographs of viruses . |
| 5 | allowing for the first time storage-type unvented hot water systems , which are common in North America and on the Continent ( see Chapter 4 ) ; unvented sealed-type central heating systems are already allowed |
| 6 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 7 | Byas , opening for the first time this season in any competition , hit his first century in one day cricket as Yorkshire cruised to a nine-wicket win over Derbyshire with 39 balls to spare . |
| 8 | Swedish certainties David Platt and Paul Parker return after missing the win over France , while John Barnes is included for the first time this season . |
| 9 | The 1989 annual report of the WHO , published on Sept. 25 , 1989 , contained for the first time comprehensive estimates of the overall incidence of disease in the world . |
| 10 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 11 | The committee , which meets for the first time next Tuesday , is expected to end its deliberations in January . |
| 12 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 13 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 14 | ‘ Contact made for the first time last night . |
| 15 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 16 | THE new Sussex Downs Conservation Board , which will have responsibilities for 600 square miles of countryside in West and East Sussex , met for the first time last week and elected Baroness Cumberlege as chairman . |
| 17 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 18 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 19 | Our findings demonstrate for the first time increased expression of ET-1 in the lungs of patients with CFA compared with the lungs of subjects without CFA . |
| 20 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 21 | We have also shown for the first time such treatment also decreases basal gastric acid secretion significantly . |
| 22 | At least 645 different designs were published — the number in Mr Hooker 's collection , shown for the first time last weekend at the British Matchbox Label and Booklet Society 's annual exhibition in London . |
| 23 | Qannaas ' trainer , BBC commentator and former royal jockey Bill Smith , said the horse is likely to attempt to win for the third time this season tomorrow ( Sat ) at Parham . |
| 24 | Then , sounding for the first time humorous , even whimsical , " But Comrade Alice , I have been getting daily , sometimes hourly , reports of your transformation of that pigsty there . " |
| 25 | racing for the last time this season are swindon speedway … it 's the riders championship there on Sunday … a meeting not to be missed |
| 26 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 27 | Archie 's Nephew , a stable-companion of Rushing Wild , was scoring for the first time this season , having acted as a schoolmaster for novice riders in several earlier runs . |
| 28 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 29 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 30 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |