Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 2 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 3 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
| 4 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 5 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 6 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 7 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 8 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 9 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 10 | Kohl was elected Chancellor for the fourth time on Jan. 17 by 378 of the 644 votes cast in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 11 | In the presidential elections of January 1991 , Soares was elected President for a second five-year term [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 12 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |