Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 2 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 3 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 4 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 5 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 6 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 7 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time . |
| 9 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |
| 10 | Sporting Sir John married for a third time but the new Lady Pryce refused to play second — or , perhaps , third — fiddle and insisted that the embalmed bodies in the moribund harem be removed . |