Example sentences of "they [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 3 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 4 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 6 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 9 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 10 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 11 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 12 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 13 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 14 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 15 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 16 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 17 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 18 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 19 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 20 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 21 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 22 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 23 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 24 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 25 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 26 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 27 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 28 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 29 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 30 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |