Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 2 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 3 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 4 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 5 | But as you 've got a long wait for the next production , let's move on to the town itself . |
| 6 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 7 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 8 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 9 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 10 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 11 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 12 | After another couple of hymns and an anthem , they go down to prepare for the next service . |
| 13 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 14 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 15 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 16 | Just picked for the first trial . |
| 17 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 18 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 19 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 20 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , just make sure we 're not disturbed for the next half-hour , will you ? ’ |
| 22 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 23 | The guidance will be similar to that already produced for the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 24 | I think half the crowd were on their way home , down Headington Hill , down Lime Walk , bemoaning United not scoring for the second week in succession , then up steps Andy Melville . |
| 25 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 26 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 27 | This show was most generously sponsored for the fourth year running by Next , who take a keen interest in the RCA . |
| 28 | Bidders missing the deadline for offers or not shortlisted for the second phase may not be readmitted . |
| 29 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 30 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |