Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | after the failure of the first implant , asked for the fourth embryo to be thawed and implanted . |
| 2 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 3 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 4 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 5 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 6 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 7 | As is usual with this event , everyone waited for the last competitors to finished , even though some took well over two hours . |