Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 2 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 3 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 4 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 6 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 7 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 8 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 9 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 10 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 11 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 12 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 13 | Tomorrow Barry visits Northampton for the first time since surgeons at the local hospital saved his legs from amputation . |
| 14 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 15 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 16 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 17 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 18 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 19 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 20 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 21 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 22 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 23 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 24 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
| 25 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 26 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 27 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 28 | THE Queen is to visit Lockerbie for the first time since the air disaster there more than four years ago . |
| 29 | Middlesex dropped Ramprakash for the next championship match against Hampshire at Southampton but recalled him yesterday for their game against Sussex at Hove . |
| 30 | When ‘ Dick ’ met Wayne for the first time , Widmark said to the Duke , ‘ Tell your press agent that the name is Richard . ’ |