Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 2 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 3 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 4 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 5 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 6 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |
| 7 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 8 | ‘ It was absolutely astonishing , ’ said Ludens , also not for the first time . |
| 9 | Fund-raising is now underway for the next stage of development , a large entrance hall , lecture/video theatre and shop/catering area . |
| 10 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 11 | The Junior School was expanding at the same time , with two forms ( instead of one ) at each of 7+ and 8+ , with girls admitted here too for the first time . |
| 12 | Thank you Mr , a point which you 've made consistently persistently for the last hour . |
| 13 | With the wind at their backs in the second half , Aldershot penned the Oxford lads in their own half and Simon Nice , in his best form , drove the ball firmly home for the second goal . |
| 14 | Yet the activity of musical direction displayed in both contexts ( solo and ensemble ) accords with other evidence , brought forward now for the first time . |