Example sentences of "for the [num ord] time [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |
| 4 | It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath . |
| 5 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 6 | An Irish audience saw the All Blacks for the first time when they trained at Donnybrook on Monday , and the first impression of Mick Quinn , the former international fly-half , was : ‘ The omens are not good . |
| 7 | After moving to Grimsetter and Hatston respectively , this unit embarked aboard the carrier HMS Indefatigable , and in the period July 14 to 19 , 1944 , took its Fireflies into action for the first time when they supported FAA raids on the German battleship Tirpitz by attacking gun positions and two German naval vessels . |
| 8 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 9 | In the final RUGBY UNION : Middlesbrough Wasps reached the final of the North Yorkshire Trophy for the first time when they beat Rowntrees 11–6 at Acklam Park yesterday . |
| 10 | Belgian hotshot Florence Descampe tasted US victory for the first time when she defied the cream of the LPGA Tour to win the Stratton Mountain Classic in Vermont . |
| 11 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 12 | He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship . |
| 13 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 14 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 15 | Charlie 's hearing was fully restored a week later and a smile appeared on his lips for the first time when he saw Grace standing by his side pouring him a cup of tea . |
| 16 | Many congratulations to LLOYD COLE who became a father for the first time when his wife recently gave birth to a baby boy Billy , in New York . |
| 17 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 18 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 19 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 20 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 21 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 22 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 23 | You are entering the market for the first time when you write a letter about yourself to either agent , casting director , producer or director . |
| 24 | I experienced tears of real grief for the first time when my granny died . |
| 25 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 26 | He hat talked about his brother 's death , and for the first time ever someone had not laid the blame at his door . |
| 27 | For the first time ever it would be possible to take , say , an Autologic font and run it , straight out of the box , on a Linotype or Monotype imagesetter . |
| 28 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 29 | ‘ For the first time ever she had the figure she always wanted and wanted to share it with her fans , ’ said a friend . |
| 30 | For the first time ever she wished he would go and that Shirley would come back in . |