Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Interviewed on Dec. 15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An admitted that Cambodian troops , " fighting alone for the first time " , were not prepared for the intensity of the rebel assault . |
| 32 | Stuart Barnes , the match captain , said : ‘ This team was playing together for the first time . |
| 33 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 34 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 35 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 36 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 37 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 38 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 39 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 40 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 41 | The bells of an Oxford church are ringing again for the first time in three years . |
| 42 | The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years . |
| 43 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |