Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 2 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 3 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 4 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 5 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 6 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 7 | Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas . |
| 8 | An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines . |
| 9 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 10 | FIFTIES star Connie Francis has confessed for the first time that she does not like her biggest hits . |
| 11 | An analysis of soil samples from a Kurdish village has proved for the first time that in 1988 Iraqi armed forces used nerve gas as well as mustard gas in air raids against civilians . |
| 12 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 13 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 14 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 15 | The Paraguayans , says Obdulio Menghi of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , " are working like never before , because of the professional and political [ commitment ] that the country has assumed for the first time . " |
| 16 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 17 | BUCKINGHAM Palace has admitted for the first time that Princess Diana 's marriage is in trouble . |
| 18 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor has admitted for the first time that his team flopped in the European Championship finals because they were n't fit enough . |
| 19 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 20 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 21 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 22 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 23 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 24 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 25 | I still did n't realise what the trouble might be , although I dare say the germ of cancer may have nestled for the first time in my mind . |
| 26 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 27 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 28 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 29 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 30 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |