Example sentences of "[verb] and for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 2 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 3 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 4 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 5 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
| 6 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 7 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 8 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 9 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 10 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 11 | The work was not taxing and for the first time in his life he had flexible free hours . |
| 12 | For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered . |
| 13 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 14 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |