Example sentences of "but [adv] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 2 | Another splendidly flighted pass found McClair in the danger zone , but not for the first time the Scot 's control was wayward . |
| 3 | This means that at the European Top 12 tournament , which started in Copenhagen yesterday afternoon , players will still be able to use many types of glue — but probably for the last time in a major European event . |
| 4 | For as an analysis of the painting will show , many of the problems that faced Picasso and Braque in their creation of the style are stated here , crudely perhaps , but clearly for the first time . |
| 5 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |
| 6 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
| 7 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 8 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |