Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 2 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 3 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 4 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 5 | Having considered the potential benefits of offering discounts for full payment of Council Tax the Council has decided for the first year that it is not beneficial and that therefore no discounts will be offered for full payment . |
| 6 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 7 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 8 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 9 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 10 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 11 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 12 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 13 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 14 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 15 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |
| 16 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 17 | As he closed the door , he noticed for the first time that there was a star on it . |
| 18 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 19 | And , of course , the 80s boom in advertising made the public aware for the first time that there was big business actually producing all the advertising that people see and hear every day . |
| 20 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 21 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 22 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 23 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 24 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 25 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 26 | FIFTIES star Connie Francis has confessed for the first time that she does not like her biggest hits . |
| 27 | At last her conscience won out and she gave a tiny sigh , wishing not for the first time that she could , just occasionally , be a touch more ruthless . |
| 28 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 29 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 30 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |