Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 2 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 3 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 4 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 5 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 6 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 7 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 8 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 9 | A major emphasis was placed on Intercession and listening to God This was invaluable as we prepared for the first section of outreach in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 10 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 11 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 12 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 13 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 14 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 15 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 16 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 17 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 18 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |