Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 2 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 3 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 5 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 6 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 7 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 8 | Figures we 've obtained for the first three months of this year show astonishing variations in cautioning rates across Kent . |
| 9 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 10 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 11 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 12 | COT deaths in England and Wales have fallen for the third consecutive year , Government figures revealed yesterday . |
| 13 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 14 | COT deaths in England and Wales have dropped for the third year in succession . |
| 15 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 16 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 17 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 18 | Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries . |
| 19 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 20 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 21 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 22 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 23 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
| 24 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Barn owl have bred for the last three years , and skylarks and meadow pipits have recolonised the wet meadows ; ten species of African migrant use the hedgerows and patches of gorse , bramble and nettles ; a colony of 20 pied flycatcher use the many nest boxes erected around the farm . |
| 27 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 28 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 29 | And you have resided for the last six months at the and at er ? |
| 30 | And you have resided for the last six months at the Railway Hotel and at er ? |