Example sentences of "for the [num ord] time [prep] their " in BNC.
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1 | They would be routed for the second time in their existence , and their slaves — the people — would be set free and return to fight with God against them ! |
2 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
3 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
4 | The Education Act of 1944 , for example , led to the majority of rural school children being educated for the first time outside their own village after the age of eleven . |
5 | APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM . |
6 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
7 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
8 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
9 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
10 | It is a fact that most people bitten for the first time by their own dog are bitten in the bedroom . |
11 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
12 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
13 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
14 | Sutton , who missed with another header shortly afterwards , went on to squander two more excellent opportunities which could have kept alive Norwich 's hopes of going to the final for the first time in their history . |
15 | This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty . |
16 | There were whole companies of white-trash , clean for the first time in their whole lives , and bands of black niggers in white robes , and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs . |
17 | For the first time in their acquaintanceship , Miss Fogerty was in charge . |
18 | Many people seemed to become aware of such things for the first time in their lives . |
19 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
20 | Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan . |
21 | My low fat eating programme , detailed in my Hip and Thigh Diet books , has helped hundreds of thousands of overweight men and women to lose weight and inches from their problem areas for the first time in their lives ! |
22 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
23 | PRINCESS Diana 's two young sons are to spend Christmas Day without their mother for the first time in their lives . |
24 | The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 . |
25 | For the first time in their lives they feel part of the crowd . |
26 | While the rest of the Mondays had , for the first time in their lives , thrown themselves with abandon into their work and discovered a new passion for playing , Shaun just could n't match up . |
27 | The line-up for the fourth Grand Slam Finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy reflects a mixture of old and new , as former champions Queen 's Club make the grade for the fourth time , whilst Royal Berkshire earn a place in the last four for the first time in their debut Trophy season . |
28 | Students are more than likely having to cope , perhaps for the first time in their lives , with a threateningly high level of conspicuous and recurrent failure , and the way they cope with anxiety will play a large part in determining what kind of a fist they make of it . |
29 | For the first time in their careers , they are featured entirely naked in ecclesiastical , urban and pastoral contexts . |
30 | It was also in 1883 , amidst considerable alarm about the increasing use of firearms by burglars , that the London police were armed for the first time in their history . |