Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later .
2 British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual .
3 The old man spoke for the first time .
4 From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs .
5 Washington 's key economic gauge faltered for a second month in September .
6 Despite a slump in the equity markets , the Japanese economy grew for a fourth consecutive year during 1990 .
7 MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government .
8 On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence .
9 Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory .
10 ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ .
11 MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen .
12 America 's industrial production fell for the fourth successive month in January , by 0.4% , to give a 12-month decline of 0.9% .
13 It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court .
14 America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel .
15 DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’
16 Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume .
17 A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 .
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