Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT .
2 When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield .
3 In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre .
4 In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time .
5 Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over .
6 That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War .
7 BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck .
8 Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] .
9 The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room .
10 He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 .
11 Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier .
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