Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 2 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 3 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 4 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 5 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 6 | He was impressive in his Premier League debut against Nottingham Forest and retained his place for the 1–1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 7 | There may also have been a second such experience immediately prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge , at which Constantine defeated his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 8 | The MI5 man paused for a moment to stroke his beard again and a hint of emotion , of disgust , entered his voice for the first time . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Mr Paul Tsongas , the former Massachusetts senator who suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination a month ago , hinted yesterday that he might re-enter the race if Mr Clinton did poorly in New York . |
| 10 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 11 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 12 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 13 | The price of land there has skyrocketed since Nagano announced its bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics " . |
| 14 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 15 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 16 | THE SCOTTISH National Party yesterday signalled its strategy for the 1990 regional council elections and the next general election by accusing Labour of swallowing ‘ Thatcher values ’ . |
| 17 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 18 | In 1216 it was Eustace who commanded the fleet which ferried Philip 's son , Louis , across to England when the latter mounted his bid for the English throne . |
| 19 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 20 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 21 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 22 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 23 | However , it must be stressed that the High Anglicans reserved their contempt for the Whig bishops ; they recognised that there were some sound bishops ( though not as many as they would like ) , and they remained committed to the defence of the institution of episcopacy . |
| 24 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 25 | But miners in Russia 's biggest coalfield , Kuzbass in western Siberia , declared their support for the embattled president and threatened to strike . |
| 26 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 27 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 28 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 29 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 30 | He rose choreographically and refilled his cup for the third time . |