Example sentences of "in [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 3 | I got four in my first game for Newcastle against Leeds and nine in my first five matches . |
| 4 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 5 | I would like to introduce myself to you in my first article for Machine Knitting Monthly . |
| 6 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 7 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 8 | The Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee broadly welcomed the proposals in Cm.375 in their Sixth Report for 1987–8 ( HC 614 ) . |
| 9 | A report in the Evening Standard in late April stated that ‘ The Foundation has provided more than £60 million in its first year for sport and art organisations throughout the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 10 | After consulting with other departmental Select Committees , however , the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) said in its Eighteenth Report for 1988–9 ( HC 354 ) that they did not consider deferral of the publication of departmental reports to March ( spring ) to be a satisfactory way of bringing the reports alongside the estimates and publication of both documents to January . |
| 11 | In his first column for the Morning Post , February 16 , 1906 , he had dismissed contributory social insurance on the German pattern , as had all British investigating committees , with the standard view that it would require an ‘ un-British ’ amount of regulation of the individual . |
| 12 | FS ( 21 ) knocked in his first goal for the seniors and addressed the other contenders for the single forward role : I will have a go for the single place up front and i would like to try it vs Costa Rica . |
| 13 | Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries . |
| 14 | Moody , in his first Test for two years , departed early on Day 2 , having made 50 , but Boon reached his century before falling to the persevering Prabhakar , who finished with 5 for 101 , including his 50th Test wicket . |
| 15 | The Grey , trained by Colin Campbell , and ridden by Stephen Deasley , was taking part in his first race for nearly 2 years . |
| 16 | In his first piece for Esquire , he writes about the strange case of Lenny McLean ( page 88 ) . |
| 17 | Now a freelance journalist , in his first piece for Esquire he returns to Pinner to trace the story of a young man who was drawn inexorably into a spiral which led to murder ( When Iain Met Tommy , page 126 ) . |
| 18 | His son , Stephen , suffered the same fate when he broke a leg in his first game for Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | In contrast to Sealey , Mike Salmon — in his first game for two years — had a quiet afternoon , making one good save early on from Trevor Matthewson . |
| 20 | Left back John Beresford is expected to recover from a hamstring strain , and if he fails a late fitness test Ray Daniel , impressive on Saturday in his first start for 11 months , will take his place . |
| 21 | Billy joined the Palace staff in October 1923 as a 19-year-old from his local club , Prudhoe Castle in Northumberland , and saved a penalty against West Ham reserves in his first match for us . |
| 22 | Offiah picked up a shoulder injury in his first match for his Australian club and is due to undergo surgery in Manchester next week . |
| 23 | ANDRE AGASSI last night insisted that he was determined to defend his Wimbledon title next week despite a heavy defeat in his first match for two months in the Halle grass court tournament in Munich . |
| 24 | IN his first contest for nine months , Liverpool lightweight Joey Moffatt kept up his winning run by beating Norman Dhalie ( Birmingham ) at the Devonshire House Sporting Club last night . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 26 | Hastings reached 46 in his four Tests , surpassing Phil Bennett 's 44 for an individual Lion , while Fox went past 1,000 points in his 74th appearance for the All Blacks . |
| 27 | The government borrowed this idea of the " internal " or quasi-market in Working for Patients ( DOH 1989a ) which was also recommended for community care by Roy Griffiths in his second report for the government ( Griffiths 1988 ) . |
| 28 | But when he was given his chance at half-time , he scored within two minutes , grabbing his 19th goal in his 41st game for his country , and his eighth in his last eight appearances with an unstoppable header . |
| 29 | Booed off the pitch in his last game for the club , he joined West Ham and left Glasgow chanting a familiar mantra . |
| 30 | Peter Dods , in his last appearance for Scotland before retiring , adding two conversions and three penalties . |