Example sentences of "[pron] for the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 2 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 3 | AND PLENTY FOR THE LITTLE DUDES TOO |
| 4 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 5 | You need a sound night 's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow . |
| 6 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 7 | got the right one for the right belt anyway yeah |
| 8 | we get one Mark we 're going to get one for the right reasons indeed . |
| 9 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 10 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 11 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 12 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 13 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 14 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 15 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 16 | When he took the stage to collect the award ( winning it for the second time following two years of Vivienne Westwood ) , Ozbek did n't stand a chance . |
| 17 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 18 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 19 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 20 | It makes a firmer fabric than an every needle rib , makes a double jacquard pattern shorter and truer to the actual pattern and , also , you can use it for the plain rows instead of the ‘ striper ’ card if you like the texture . |
| 21 | it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too . |
| 22 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |