Example sentences of "they [vb past] 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 They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back .
13 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 . )
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter .
20 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 .
21 By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil .
25 They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats .
26 The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle .
27 After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable .
28 When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides .
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