Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE number of marriages between a divorcee and someone who is marrying for the first time is on the slide . |
| 32 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 33 | Her mother was a true believer in Christ , and after she was widowed for the second time , she came to live in Kidderminster in 1658 . |
| 34 | She was captured for the second time and remains disappeared . |
| 35 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 36 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 37 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |
| 38 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 39 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 40 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 41 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 42 | It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there . |
| 43 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 44 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
| 45 | In fact this is a year when we 're spending for the next adoptions . |
| 46 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 47 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 48 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 49 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 50 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 51 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 52 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 53 | they 're advertising for the first time or the last ad |
| 54 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 55 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 56 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 57 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 58 | Here the use of the definite article with ‘ driver ’ seems quite appropriate , even though he is mentioned for the first time . |
| 59 | Damien Devine from Cirencester in Gloucestershire , heads a training programme for firemen in Saudi Arabia , where he 's worked for the last 18 months . |
| 60 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |