Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 3 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 5 | In general , we find paths from J to 1 and I to 1 and then look for the first node k at which the paths meet ( k = 9 in the example ) . |
| 6 | Mrs Singh asked ‘ Do you have the same holiday ? ’ and then spoke for the first time about Balbinder . |
| 7 | He has affectionate links with the county and indeed played for the 2nd XI and a local club after being brought over originally by Viv Richards , a fellow Antiguan . |
| 8 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 9 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |