Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met her eyes and for a second time ; she smiled her shy smile at him , but his swimming head filled it with invitations . |
| 2 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 3 | This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 5 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 6 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 7 | The couple begin to lead separate lives and for the first time there is public concern over the marriage . |
| 8 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 9 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 10 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 11 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 12 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 13 | But much wider issues than the construction of the Finance Act 1976 have been raised in these appeals and for the first time this House has been asked to consider a detailed argument upon the extent to which reference can properly be made before a court of law in the United Kingdom to proceedings in Parliament recorded in Hansard . |
| 14 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 15 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten . |
| 17 | Using drugs can be dangerous , especially when they 're taken in excess or for a long time , or in the wrong combinations . |
| 18 | This did recommend involvement of the voluntary sector on joint liaison committees and for the first time give access for voluntary agencies to make direct application to health boards without having to seek prior sponsorship from the local authority . |
| 19 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 20 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 21 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
| 22 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 23 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 24 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 25 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 26 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
| 27 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 28 | Therefore , the plaintiffs , a partnership in general medical practice , were seeking to prevent an employee once he had left , from , inter alia , practising as a consultant within a certain area and for a certain time . |
| 29 | Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship . |
| 30 | The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe . |