Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 2 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 3 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 4 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 5 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 6 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 7 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 8 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |