Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length .
2 I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time .
3 The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer .
4 While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] .
5 Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ .
6 ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] .
7 LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific .
8 Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time .
9 No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean .
10 On the 5th June 1156 , Frederick Barbarossa married for the second time .
11 However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state .
12 The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line .
13 And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married .
14 Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ .
15 Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences .
16 The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months .
17 On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh .
18 TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies .
19 Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether .
20 Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] .
21 Corinth sent help to Potidaia , the Athenians sent a besieging force , and so Corinth and Athens clashed for the second time .
22 Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League .
23 The bewildered children of his son Robert learnt for the first time how their apparently benevolent grandfather really viewed their father .
24 In 1959 the Shah married for the third time , to Farah Diba , a twenty-one-year-old Iranian student of architecture .
25 Centre Don Caskie returns for the first time in a month after suffering concussion in Gloucester 's defeat at Bath .
26 On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day .
27 In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh .
28 Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury .
29 Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me .
30 Harry looked for the first time at the cheque where it lay beside him , flattened by the base of the lamp .
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