Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the second time in two days I 'm hearing the usually benevolent lioness growl , ’ she said . |
| 2 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 4 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 5 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 6 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 7 | It is the first time in recent memory she has missed the ceremony . |
| 8 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 9 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 10 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 11 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 12 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 13 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 14 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 15 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 16 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 17 | For the first time in this book we shall take a closer look at one branch of the proletariat . |
| 18 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 19 | And actually really in a last resort in many cases they come to you . |
| 20 | Reposssession proceedings are always a last resort in this case we believe we acted responsibly and the customer was fully informed of our intended actions at every stage . |
| 21 | By the third issue in late September it had become a little A5 booklet , to Elliott 's distress . |
| 22 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 23 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |