Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
2 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
3 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
4 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
5 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
6 | For his summer holiday he went with Henry Legerton to Positano , seeing Italy for the first time , and sent a card to Hanns : ‘ We have lounged like lizards . |
7 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
8 | Seeing London for the first time , not very impressed , I I liked Crystal Palace but tt . |
9 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
10 | Before leaving London for the second time , the Captain of the aircraft received an updated weather report showing that conditions were bad at Manchester and deteriorating quickly at Prestwick . |
11 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
12 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
13 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |