Example sentences of "but for [art] [num ord] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 2 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 3 | It was hard work , but for the first time there are signs of movement in Stephen 's legs and clinic staff are hopeful he may soon be able to walk . |
| 4 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 5 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |