Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 2 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 3 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 4 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 5 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 6 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 7 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 8 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 9 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 10 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 11 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 12 | After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading . |
| 13 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 14 | COT deaths in England and Wales have dropped for the third year in succession . |
| 15 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 16 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 17 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 18 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 19 | MEAN-HEARTED thieves have struck for the third time at the Wrexham depot of the Operation Christmas Child charity , stealing a fax machine used to send out vital documents for aid convoys . |
| 20 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 21 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 22 | We now need to recruit for the next course , there will be a Training Taster Session on the Easter Course on Friday 31 March and a Potential Teachers Workshop at Potters Bar ( just off M25 ) on Saturday 24 June to launch a new course starting there in September . |