Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 2 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 3 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 4 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 5 | The congress also agreed for the first time that in order to ensure a separation of the MPRP and state bodies , the Chairman of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural ( i.e. effective head of state ) should not be a member of the supreme governing body of the MPRP . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 7 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 8 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 9 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 10 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 11 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 12 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 13 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 15 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 16 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 17 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 18 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 19 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 20 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 21 | From here , a futher interpretation of the Miller 's Tale may be proposed which is similar in form to that of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin recalled just above , although far less severe , morally , than either that proposed for the French fabliau or that of the allegorizers . |
| 22 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 23 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 24 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 25 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 26 | When he came back , he tried for the Anglican priesthood and was rejected . ’ |
| 27 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 28 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 29 | Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 . |
| 30 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |