Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] for [art] [num ord] 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 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 9 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 10 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 11 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |
| 12 | I HAVE JUST bought Esquire for the first time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 18 | In Scotland , where such initiatives have been centrally funded by the Scottish Office , many hospitals have introduced phlebotomists for the first time . |
| 19 | It was confirmed on Monday that the former army officer had attempted suicide for a third time . |
| 20 | The report added that participants had emphasised the significance of the exchange of military information , which had taken place for the first time in Vienna in mid-April , as " one of the key links in the development of a confidence-building and security system in Europe " . |
| 21 | Kohl was elected Chancellor for the fourth time on Jan. 17 by 378 of the 644 votes cast in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 22 | It was like he had discovered sex for the first time , ’ said a friend . |
| 23 | The St Louis turned round and headed north for a second time . |