Example sentences of "they [vb past] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 3 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 4 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 6 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 9 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 10 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 11 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 12 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 13 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 14 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 15 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 16 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 17 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 18 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 19 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 20 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 21 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 22 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 23 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |