Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 32 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 33 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 34 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 35 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 36 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 37 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 38 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 39 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
| 40 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 41 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 42 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 43 | Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes : |
| 44 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 45 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 46 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 47 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 48 | ‘ Well , ’ Jed said , speaking up for the first time , ‘ at least there were n't any tolling bells in it . ’ |
| 49 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 50 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 51 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 52 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 53 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 54 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 55 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 56 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 57 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 58 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 59 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 60 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |