Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 2 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 3 | On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ . |
| 4 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 5 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 6 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 7 | Indeed , the Home Secretary , Mr Leon Brittan , took great pride in the fact that , unlike any of its predecessors , the Conservative Government had provided for the first time a clear and comprehensive statutory framework for the interception of communications . |