Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Finally , on Saturday 23 June , the Wordsworths left Alfoxden , and went for the last time down the wooded lane through the deer park , past the beech trees and hollies where , on a day in March , they had sheltered from a hail storm , past Christopher Tricky 's hovel near the dog pound , and past the ‘ loud Waterfall ’ , whose sound would always echo in their memories . |
| 32 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 33 | I looked out and saw for the first time the main street of Koraloona 's largest town , Anani : a dusty white strip of road , a long row of assorted shops , a few cars . |
| 34 | And Nicholas looked , and saw for the last time the face of Katelina van Borselen , into which Abul Ismail read contentment . |
| 35 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 36 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 37 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 38 | Edouard looked up , and smiled for the first time . |
| 39 | He opened the letter , saw the name at the bottom , and smiled for the first time that day . |
| 40 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 41 | Nadine clicked her tongue and smiled for the first time . |
| 42 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 43 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 44 | Maximilian said , and Edward looked at him with interest and regard for the first time . |
| 45 | Labour 's job is to defend its people and communities to the best of its collective abilities , and prepare for the next time . |
| 46 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 47 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 48 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 49 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 50 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 51 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 52 | My philosophy is that if somebody beats you then he 's lucky ; that on the day , your best was n't good enough — but wait for the next time round . |
| 53 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 54 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |
| 55 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 56 | This measurement may , therefore , be of clinical value in the assessment of a patient with impaired renal function when seen for the first time . |
| 57 | When introduced for the first time , technical terms can be helpfully identified by having inverted commas round them . |
| 58 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |