Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 2 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 3 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 4 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 5 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 6 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 7 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 8 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 9 | He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine . |
| 10 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 11 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 12 | Soutter , the fourth seed , thus beat the player who caused her exclusion from England 's world title-winning team , in a final that for the first time since 1979 contained neither of the Guernsey girls , Martine le Moignan and Lisa Opie . |
| 13 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 14 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |