Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground .
2 Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment .
3 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
4 The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time .
5 The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time .
6 But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time .
7 The White Paper also recognized publicly for the first time a stark fact that was becoming increasingly obvious : that with the steep decline in the birth rate the number of teachers in training would have to be sharply reduced to avoid a gross overproduction of teachers .
8 LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed .
9 East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw .
10 These efforts have proved — regrettably — to be unsuccessful , and the essay is therefore printed here for the first time without its owner 's permission .
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