Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
2 | Centre Don Caskie returns for the first time in a month after suffering concussion in Gloucester 's defeat at Bath . |
3 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ We could get a boat , ’ Paul says for the eleventh time . |
6 | Paul asks for the thousandth time . |
7 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |