Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIGEL MANSELL smashed the track record in yesterday 's first qualifying round for the Indycar grand prix in Surfers Paradise , Australia , and vowed to go even faster today . |
| 2 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 3 | His returned warranty card was the first drawn out for the month of April under a new scheme to encourage registration of pumps and a faster system of repair as featured in February 's Newsround . |
| 4 | First look out for the spoor on prominent areas of the banks , scatter the area with pieces of sliced apple and then sit and wait . |
| 5 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 6 | When someone has been found , if they are strangers , it is sensible to invite them first to drop in for a cup of tea , to make sure that they can establish a good rapport with your parent , and that the two will get along well together . |
| 7 | The experience of being an old person , a senior citizen , is imposed from outside , as for example people find when they first queue up for a retirement bus pass : ‘ The general expectation [ is ] that old people should be incompetent ’ ( Victor , 1987 , p. 265 ) . |
| 8 | After being told that they could n't have children , the Smiths became the first to sign up for the ARC 1990 , which would form part of some long-term cruising . |
| 9 | She had not felt this alone and lonely since she first set out for the French battlefields over fifty years ago . |
| 10 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |