Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 2 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 4 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 5 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 6 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 7 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 8 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 9 | Making sense of God for a second time |
| 10 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected President of Djibouti for the fourth time . |
| 11 | Coun Richard Wastell , of Scarborough , was named as the mayor of Whitby for the third time . |
| 12 | The wide acceptance of the positive value of collective action , typical of Italy for a long time [ which ] meant a well-established tradition existed for mobilising community support . |
| 13 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 14 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 15 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 16 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |
| 17 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 18 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 19 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 20 | This ‘ black-figure ’ method of vase-decoration was to become widely accepted throughout Greece for a long time . |
| 21 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 22 | The first day of term in the Foley household meant that Jack would put on a college scarf and head into UCD for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't unusual for no contract to be signed — we 've worked with Selina for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | He 's missing from the England team tomorrow of course but Gloucester will have a man playing for the Calcutta Cup … as skipper Ian Smith runs out with Scotland for the first time |
| 25 | I went out with Anne for a long time before she decided to marry Alfred , or he decided to marry her . |
| 26 | Flanagan began the big Bangor revival , winning the Ulster Cup and taking the club into Europe for the only time in their history as League runners-up two years ago . |
| 27 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |
| 28 | Indeed he was a great admirer of the Greek philosopher , many of whose concepts stayed with Galileo for a long time , but he demanded to be allowed freedom from dogma and interference to pursue the truth . |
| 29 | TWO YEARS to the day since Howard Kendall tied the knot with Everton for a second time , a forgotten child of his first managerial union with the Goodison club shone when he needed him most . |
| 30 | FERGIE 'S ex-nanny Alison Wardley has told of her life with Fergie for the first time . |