Example sentences of "[verb] for the third time " in BNC.
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| 1 | the fire alarm goes for the third time . |
| 2 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |
| 3 | Rosemary , who has learnt to cope with severe tinnitus , is all ready to set sail for the THIRD time aboard Lord Nelson , the specially adapted tall ship for disabled adventurers run by the Jubilee Sailing Trust . |
| 4 | Qannaas ' trainer , BBC commentator and former royal jockey Bill Smith , said the horse is likely to attempt to win for the third time this season tomorrow ( Sat ) at Parham . |
| 5 | ‘ He expressed a rather sensible idea , ’ said Stavrogin , ad yawned for the third time . |
| 6 | Offered for the third time in its history by Agnew 's is Turner 's ‘ Sunset : a mackerel shoal ’ . |
| 7 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 8 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 9 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 10 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 11 | MEAN-HEARTED thieves have struck for the third time at the Wrexham depot of the Operation Christmas Child charity , stealing a fax machine used to send out vital documents for aid convoys . |
| 12 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
| 13 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 14 | There is no doubt they deserved the points after pushing title favourites Galleywood and Stock — who both won for the third time this season on Saturday — so close in their last two matches . |
| 15 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 16 | On March 23 the Slovak parliament rejected for the third time a motion proclaiming Slovakia 's sovereignty . |
| 17 | Despite a slick campaign — a precursor of that just ended — Labour lost for the third time in a row , its vote scarcely up on that of 1983 . |
| 18 | By the time the British , the Americans , and the ultimately successful Rifs from North Africa had made their assaults , the monastery was almost completely destroyed for the third time in history . |
| 19 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 20 | JOHN CLEESE married for the third time last night and , like his previous wives , his new bride is an American . |
| 21 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 22 | In 1959 the Shah married for the third time , to Farah Diba , a twenty-one-year-old Iranian student of architecture . |
| 23 | Yet when Lawrence tried to use it , the camcorder failed for the third time . |
| 24 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |