Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Rangers striker has been recalled to the squad to face in-form Chelsea in the Coca-Cola Cup tonight and is set to appear for the first time in two months . |
| 2 | During that sequence Vic made full appearances throughout our promotion season of 1960–61 , thus helping us to progress for the first time in forty years , while a feature of his game in that successful season was the accurate and powerful throw he developed , by which he frequently set up a fast Palace counter-attack . |
| 3 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 4 | Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s , due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [ see p. 38758 ] . |
| 5 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 6 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 7 | The aeroplane is due to fly for the first time in 1995 and , once certified safe , should be flying passengers by 1997 . |
| 8 | Financial difficulties caused by the fall in the oil price in the late 1980s and by the increasing budget deficit forced the government to turn for the first time to the international financial markets . |
| 9 | Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history . |
| 10 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 11 | Harry 's expression began to relax for the first time in Nicholas 's company . |
| 12 | Lynagh , helped off just before the interval , failed to score for the first time in 60 Tests , but new goal-kicker Marty Roebuck was cool as he amassed 17 points from three penalties and four conversions . |
| 13 | But while he hesitates over Barnes , he has already confirmed that 25-goal Wright will start and bid to score for the first time in eight caps . |
| 14 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
| 15 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 16 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 17 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 18 | The geographer L. Dudley Stamp fashioned his land use survey in this context to capture for the first time since the Domesday Book an impression of how the land of Britain was used ( or misused ) . |
| 19 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 20 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 21 | Scottish prison officers are to strike for the first time in their history on November the fifth . |