Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 3 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 4 | The British banks have attracted criticism for a long time over their failure to provide long-term finance to industry , and to develop lasting relationships with industrial customers . |
| 5 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 6 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 7 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |
| 8 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
| 9 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 10 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 11 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 12 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 13 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 14 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |
| 15 | I HAVE JUST bought Esquire for the first time . |
| 16 | Aids dementia is more common in those who have had AIDS for a long time , and in some instances the dementia is probably due to other organisms attacking the brain . |
| 17 | Mm , well I have n't had fish for a long time . |
| 18 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 19 | I 've had Duck for a long time . |
| 20 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 21 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 22 | The countryside , here called Wessex for the first time , village community life , the joyousness of seasonal festivities , the importance of music — all familiar from Under the Greenwood Tree — are integrated into a more complex story than any Hardy had yet attempted . |
| 23 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 24 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I have known Graham for a long time but there will be no sentiment when he picks the England team . |
| 26 | In Scotland , where such initiatives have been centrally funded by the Scottish Office , many hospitals have introduced phlebotomists for the first time . |
| 27 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 28 | It was confirmed on Monday that the former army officer had attempted suicide for a third time . |
| 29 | West Bromwich boss Ardiles , an enthusiastic 15-handicap golfer , said : ‘ I 've known Vicente for a long time . |
| 30 | But , since you 're so interested , I 've known Nicole for a long time . ’ |