Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Willie joined in the second time round . |
| 32 | Harry looked for the first time at the cheque where it lay beside him , flattened by the base of the lamp . |
| 33 | This year sees a strong European attendance , with André Candillier from Paris showing for the first time while in the field of Old Masters . |
| 34 | As it dropped like a stone from 6,500ft , Captain Fuchs spoke for the last time . |
| 35 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 36 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 37 | Home , alone , Jay played through the last time Dionne had come over . |
| 38 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 39 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 40 | Theodora spoke for the first time . |
| 41 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 42 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 43 | ‘ Look , Jeremy , ’ Celia said for the second time . |
| 44 | Leonard retired for the first time in 1982 with a detached retina which until recent times would have ended his fighting career permanently . |
| 45 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 46 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 47 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 48 | And the same will be true of Britain 's spending if Manchester loses for a second time . |
| 49 | In a decree issued on July 15 , Shaikh Jabir authorized for the first time in the emirate 's history the borrowing of up to KD10,000 million ( $34,000 million ) on international finance markets to rebuild the country 's economy and pay allied military bills . |
| 50 | Everton were surviving a Leeds siege thanks to Neville Southall 's brilliance when Ablett erred for the first time . |
| 51 | Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis attended for the first time on June 12 a meeting of the USSR Council of the Federation , comprising the Presidents of the 15 union republics ( previously he had refused to participate on the grounds that he was the head of a foreign state ) . |
| 52 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 53 | Allen spoke for the first time since he had joined them . |
| 54 | Steve spoke for the first time . |
| 55 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 56 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 57 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 58 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 59 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |
| 60 | Forster exposes for the first time , with the official sanction of Du Maurier 's family , her fantasy life , her secret wartime affair , and the many contradictions in this complex woman 's inner life . |