Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [art] third [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London .
2 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
3 Then Murray Wallace surged over for the third try , making the score at half-time 20-0 .
4 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 .
5 Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try .
6 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 .
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