Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex . |
| 2 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 3 | BBDO , Leo Burnett , Chiat Day and LH-S to present their credentials only for the above and below-the-line campaign . |
| 4 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 5 | Laura was very lucky to be married to Richard , who would not have hurt her feelings deliberately for the whole world . |
| 6 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 7 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 8 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 9 | No one had ever asked his opinion before for the specific purpose of putting it into print in a newspaper article that might be read by millions of people . |
| 10 | Gordon Bradley is a familiar face at the Shrewsbury Flower Show , he has been exhibiting his arrangements there for the past 25 years . |
| 11 | The child may retain his stools partly for the erotic pleasure of later letting go , but also as an act of defiance against the parents . |
| 12 | His shoulder-length jet-black hair falls dramatically and we see his face clearly for the first time — high-cheek-boned , eyes like slits of molten anthracite . |
| 13 | I refer to your interview today for the above appointment and would advise you that , after careful consideration , the Sub-Committee has decided to recommend to the Regional Council that be appointed to the post . |
| 14 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 15 | Open me post now for the first time , oh oh that 's nice oh I can have a update for supply teachers , Wednesday the fifteenth of April , you baby sit for me ? |
| 16 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 17 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 18 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 19 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |