Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ruth paid in advance for the first night . |
| 7 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 10 | John Hart , Assistant Director ( Curriculum ) comments : ‘ Aspects of two major areas of review will be completed in time for the next Catalogue . |
| 11 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 12 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 13 | It was the first truly successful undersea cable , continuing in business for the next 24 years . |
| 14 | They worked in silence for the next ten minutes , then Mike said : " Right . |
| 15 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 16 | Between 1712 and 1716 the lots were sold to about twenty different persons : the same rents remained in force for the next century . |
| 17 | ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed . |
| 18 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 19 | However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets . |
| 20 | When acceleration or deceleration is complete the transistor switch is opened and the capacitor can then recharge in preparation for the next speed change . |
| 21 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |
| 22 | Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island . |
| 23 | The sandy beach on Majorca is ideal for flopping on by day in order to recover in time for the next night of action , and what a night it will be in this town that never sleeps ! |
| 24 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 25 | In 1285 he was elected prior after the resignation of Thomas de Ringmere , and he remained in charge for the next forty-seven years . |
| 26 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |