Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 3 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 4 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 5 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 6 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 8 | But Williams steps aside for the second half which belongs to De Niro . |
| 9 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 10 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 11 | Bay of Plenty showed the advantage of the special coaching which New Zealanders receive for such events when they romped to victory in the Melrose Sevens tournament , taking the prized trophy overseas for the third year in a row by defeating Kelso 19–12 in the final . |
| 12 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 13 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 14 | A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so . |
| 15 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 16 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 17 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 18 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 19 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 20 | As Strachan was clearly knackered at the end of it , I thought he could have had a run out for the last 10 mins or so . |
| 21 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 22 | A young childless widow who does not qualify for either of these benefits will no longer be entitled to the weekly national insurance benefit even for the first 26 weeks . |
| 23 | So is anybody in immediate problems at the moment or you 're o Okay , so , I 'll , it 's your chance now to do some work then for the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 24 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 25 | You get Supplementary Benefit instead for the first six — |
| 26 | Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side . |
| 27 | Again we talked about this last week , fifty weeks of the year you toil and you look forward to your holiday months in advance , you then take your holiday and somehow it recharges your batteries so that you 're ready to do battle again for the next fifty weeks . |
| 28 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 29 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 30 | He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks . |