Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 2 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 3 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |
| 4 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 5 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 6 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 7 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 9 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 10 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 11 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 12 | HUNDREDS of fans besieged Michael Jackson 's hotel after the pop superstar arrived in Singapore for the next stage of his world tour yesterday . |
| 13 | On 18 December 1989 , Nicolae Ceauşescu arrived in Teheran for the last of countless travels abroad . |
| 14 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 15 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 16 | Ruth paid in advance for the first night . |
| 17 | From that moment on , everything that happened to Pamella for the next month or so is a closely-guarded secret . |
| 18 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 19 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 20 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 21 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 22 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 23 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 24 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 25 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 26 | In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before . |
| 27 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 28 | They worked in silence for the next ten minutes , then Mike said : " Right . |
| 29 | Early in 1922 the tramway fell into disuse for the second and final time . |
| 30 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |