Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
5 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
6 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Stroking Oxford for the second year running is a Glasgow Academy FP , Iain Gardiner . |
9 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
10 | Seeing London for the first time , not very impressed , I I liked Crystal Palace but tt . |
11 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |