Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 2 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 3 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 4 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 5 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 6 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 7 | The pill swapping continued for the next couple of weeks , showing no difference in the population of Xenly . |
| 8 | Your comment was made in a week when manufacturing output fell for the seventh successive quarter and unemployment rose for the 23rd successive month . |
| 9 | Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 . |
| 10 | As a result of the bad weather , the Royal Bank of Scotland 's oil index fell for the second consecutive month to 114.5 , the second lowest January since the index began ten years ago . |