Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 3 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 4 | In Romania the legacy of the late President Ceausescu 's National Stalinism' will persist for a considerable time and the directions of change can not easily be predicted . |
| 5 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 6 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 7 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 8 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 9 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 10 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 11 | Sailors from off the boats would be looking for a good time and public bars would resound to the sound of many voices . |
| 12 | The timings of the trains will be revealed for the first time and anyone interested is welcome to attend the meeting at St Mary 's Centre , Corporation Road , Middlesbrough at 7.30pm . |
| 13 | The operation was repeated in November , when Larak — this time a 2,500 km round trip — was bombed for the first time and five tankers were hit . |
| 14 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 15 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 16 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 17 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 18 | On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation . |
| 19 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 20 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 21 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
| 22 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 24 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 25 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 26 | She said she 's walked for the first time and felt exhausted . |
| 27 | In four patients a history of haematuria was elicited for the first time and was investigated . |
| 28 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 29 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 30 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |