Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [num ord] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 2 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 5 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 6 | Her friends ridiculed her , seeing for the first time how the balance in their relationship had shifted in favour of adorable Diana . |
| 7 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 8 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 9 | However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona . |
| 10 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 11 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 12 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 13 | The significance of the defeat on Monday of Ken Livingstone , Brent East MP , could only be calculated for the first time yesterday when the detailed voting figures were published . |
| 14 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 15 | The Serbian forces ' westward drive into Bosnia fits into a map disclosed for the first time yesterday , which shows Serbian leaders intend to capture more than 70 per cent of Bosnia , leaving Croatian and Muslim populations isolated in small pockets of land . |
| 16 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 17 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 18 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 19 | Rozario looking for the first flick on as you say . |
| 20 | After the attempt various constitutional clauses were suspended and press and television censorship was imposed for the first time in over 30 years to exclude media coverage of coup leader Chávez Frías . |
| 21 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 22 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 23 | The bewildered children of his son Robert learnt for the first time how their apparently benevolent grandfather really viewed their father . |
| 24 | My philosophy is that if somebody beats you then he 's lucky ; that on the day , your best was n't good enough — but wait for the next time round . |
| 25 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 26 | The 32-strong Skills Audit Team , recruited to find out all about the skills and work experience of the people living in the eastern district of the town , met for the last time yesterday at the end of a ten-week project . |
| 27 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 28 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 29 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |