Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 2 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 3 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 4 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 5 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 6 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 7 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 8 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 9 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 10 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 11 | On Oct. 25-27 the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC — which had split from the ANC in 1959 — see p. 17449 ) , acted together for the first time since 1960 to become part of the Patriotic Front , an initiative launched to create a united front in negotiations with the Pretoria government . |
| 12 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 13 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 14 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 15 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 16 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 17 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 18 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 19 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 20 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
| 21 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 22 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |
| 23 | New national research , revealed here for the first time , shows that less than one in five local authorities across the UK have internal guidelines for social workers on dealing with elder abuse . |
| 24 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 25 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 27 | THE new crew of that colourful Clyde puffer , the Vital Spark , gathered yesterday for the first time aboard the vessel made famous in the Neil Munro tales . |
| 28 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 29 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 30 | Sheldukher laughed heartily for the first time since his destruction of the Krondel constellation . |