Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 2 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 3 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 4 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 5 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 6 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 7 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |