Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 2 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 3 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 4 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 5 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 6 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 7 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |
| 8 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 9 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 10 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 11 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 12 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 13 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 14 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 15 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 16 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 17 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 18 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 19 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 20 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 21 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 22 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 23 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 24 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 25 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunninghan ) said , the Secretary of State spoke for a long time — until about 6 o'clock . |
| 26 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 27 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 28 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 29 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 30 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |