Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 32 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 33 | In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh . |
| 34 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 35 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 36 | Harry looked for the first time at the cheque where it lay beside him , flattened by the base of the lamp . |
| 37 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 38 | As it dropped like a stone from 6,500ft , Captain Fuchs spoke for the last time . |
| 39 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 40 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 41 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 42 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 43 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 44 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 45 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 46 | Theodora spoke for the first time . |
| 47 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 48 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 49 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 50 | ‘ Look , Jeremy , ’ Celia said for the second time . |
| 51 | Leonard retired for the first time in 1982 with a detached retina which until recent times would have ended his fighting career permanently . |
| 52 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 53 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 54 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 55 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 56 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 57 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | In a decree issued on July 15 , Shaikh Jabir authorized for the first time in the emirate 's history the borrowing of up to KD10,000 million ( $34,000 million ) on international finance markets to rebuild the country 's economy and pay allied military bills . |