Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd promised myself then and there : I was n't going for a second appointment . |
| 32 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 33 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 34 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |
| 35 | Polythene was virtually forgotten for the next two and a half years . |
| 36 | In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final . |
| 37 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 38 | The existence of the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , commonly known as MI6 , was publicly acknowledged for the first time by the government when Major announced on May 6 that the service would , like its domestic intelligence counterpart MI5 [ see p. 37158 ] , be placed on a statutory basis during the 1992-93 session of Parliament , and confirmed that its Chief was Sir Colin McColl . |