Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 4 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 5 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 6 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 7 | While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them . |
| 8 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 9 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 10 | It is the very particular choreographic style that MacMillan created for the child-like figure in Requiem that emphasises more strongly than any other of today 's ballets the need for choreographers to explore dance itself . |
| 11 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 12 | While Singapore was enthusiastic , Malaysia remained cautious , and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations [ for Indonesian relations with ASEAN countries see p. 37580 ] . |
| 13 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 14 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 15 | Corinth sent help to Potidaia , the Athenians sent a besieging force , and so Corinth and Athens clashed for the second time . |
| 16 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 17 | Forshaw and Abercrombie opted for the third . |
| 18 | While leaders of all the main political parties expressed their condemnation of the March 31 violence , David Waddington , the Home Secretary , asserted on April 1 that certain Labour MPs who advocated non-payment must bear some of the blame for the events of the previous day , and Patten called for the Labour whip to be withdrawn from them . |
| 19 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 20 | In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | When Marcus , Tony , Jason and Darren dashed for the next bus , the driver did n't know where he was supposed to take them . |
| 22 | Following a meeting on May 19 with Chinese Premier Li Peng , both India and China called for the peaceful resolution of their long-running border dispute [ for December 1991 talks see p. 38683 ] . |
| 23 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 24 | A group of lawyers from Britain and Europe called for a judicial inquiry into allegations of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Such taxes begin with the levies imposed by lay rulers to raise money for the crusades ( as the kings of England and France did for the Second and Third Crusades ) . |
| 26 | Fawcett played the Second and Third Tests — risking a major defensive error which cost a try in the Third — and Robertson returned for the Fourth . |
| 27 | The overnight snooze [ all of one-and-a-half hours ] on the ferry was hardly over when it was time to drive onto Reims , where crews from Oslo , Berlin and Edinburgh met for a deserved rest . |
| 28 | Morse and Max stood for a few moments silently just outside the front door of the Kemp residence . |
| 29 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 30 | One indication of the importance of state pensions in increasing the financial security and independence of the bulk of the British population can be drawn from statistics of wealth distribution in England and Wales collected for the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth . |