Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that initially CD-I may be seen by those either upgrading their CD-A players or buying for the first time , as an added available dimension . |
| 2 | Salary is paid by the province or state for the first year after which the employer accepts responsibility . |
| 3 | ‘ The Poetry of Perestroika ’ is an anthology of poems that were written , or published for the first time , during the period when the bureaucratic grip was gradually loosened . |
| 4 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 5 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 6 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 7 | The first laugh of the evening came with the phrase ‘ non-aligned countries like Nato ’ ; the second with the observation that killing for the first time is ‘ like sex ’ : Darke 's audience of true believers was easily pleased . |
| 8 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 9 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 10 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 11 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 12 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 13 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 14 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 15 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 16 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 17 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 18 | I left him there , and headed for the next block . |
| 19 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 20 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 21 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 22 | Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ? |
| 23 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 24 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 25 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 26 | The leaders — Castle Falis , Princeful , Kapeno , Rondetto and Rutherfords — swept over Becher 's and made for the twenty-third fence , the smallest on the course and , though taken at a left-hand angle , a simple preliminary to the trappy right-angled bend to the left at the Canal Turn . |
| 27 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 28 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 29 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 30 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |