Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | For the second approach this could only be answered by asking another , deeper , question : why did geographical change take place at that period at all ? |
2 | For the second Test both sides will be much better prepared and a better Test match will be the result . ’ |
3 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
4 | He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie . |
5 | For the second time that night the prison door slammed shut . |
6 | For the second time that day , Corbett was shaken awake , an insistent voice calling his name . |
7 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
8 | She was in Wales for the second time that year . |
9 | And for the second time that day , the bride vowed : ‘ I will ! ’ |
10 | Adam Carver returned on foot to Rose Bower for the second time that evening . |
11 | For the second time that night she slid silently in at a garden gate . |
12 | For the second time that month Flavia slept late . |
13 | Ann 's dragged out of bed at five in the morning , for the second time that night . |
14 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
15 | Wu Shih smiled , surprised for the second time that morning at Wang Sauleyan . |
16 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
17 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
18 | For the second time that day she went to the canteen . |
19 | For the second time that afternoon Sniffy Wilson rang Rain . |
20 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
21 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
22 | As I climbed the stairs for the second time that morning , more wearily this time , I heard the sound of a keg being gently turned in a lock . |
23 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
24 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
25 | For the second time that day , his sovereign had assured him that he was the only man to lead the country through the crisis and had asked him to reconsider his resignation . |
26 | For the second time that evening , Loretta felt a sense of unreality quite at odds with the purpose of her visit . |
27 | Then , for the second time that evening , all three of them made their way to Puddephat 's window and let themselves into his rooms . |
28 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
29 | For the second time that evening . |
30 | There is no such ring in the Reeve 's Tale , but it is hard not to notice that the motif seems to have been displaced and taken over by Absolon as he approaches Alison 's window for the second time that night , in order to deceive her : A sure example of intertextual inference is found in John 's use of the cradle trick ; he envies Alayn 's success with Malyne , and decides he will " " arise and auntre [ chance ] it " " himself . |