Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 2 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 4 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 5 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 6 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 7 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |
| 8 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 9 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 10 | Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language . |