Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 2 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 3 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 4 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 5 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 6 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 7 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 8 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 9 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 10 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 11 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 12 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 13 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 14 | Georgina arranged for the wooden bridge over the lake to be replaced with the stone bridge of classical design , by Wyatt , who also had designed the wings of the Palladian Villa . |
| 15 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 16 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 17 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 18 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 19 | Lucy hesitated for the merest second . |
| 20 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 21 | On the 5th June 1156 , Frederick Barbarossa married for the second time . |
| 22 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 23 | On May 25 India reacted by expelling from Delhi two Pakistani diplomats of similar rank , and on May 26 called off talks with Pakistan scheduled for the following week . |
| 24 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 25 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 26 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 27 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 28 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 29 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 30 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |