Example sentences of "[pers pn] was for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 2 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 3 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 4 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 5 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 6 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 7 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 8 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 9 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 10 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 11 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 12 | I 've even seen Bruce Springsteen having to explain who he was for the tenth time in one record company reception . |
| 13 | Whatever he wore he looked marvellous in , and Fran 's heart tripped alarmingly as she appreciated how attractive he was for the umpteenth time . |