Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] [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 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But as you 've got a long wait for the next production , let's move on to the town itself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 13 | After another couple of hymns and an anthem , they go down to prepare for the next service . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | Just picked for the first trial . |
| 18 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 19 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 20 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 21 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , just make sure we 're not disturbed for the next half-hour , will you ? ’ |
| 25 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 26 | The guidance will be similar to that already produced for the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 29 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 30 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |