Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 2 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 3 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 4 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 5 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 6 | When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition . |
| 7 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 8 | One of the problems is the initial guarantee often looks attractive but only lasts for a short time . |
| 9 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 10 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 11 | Seeds may be collected but be quick as they only float for a short time . |
| 12 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 13 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 14 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 15 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 16 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 17 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 18 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 19 | Now , physically close for the first time , he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her , living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing . |
| 20 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 21 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 22 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 24 | The foundations of the colonial era , during which white European nations dominated vast areas of Asia , Africa and Latin America , were fatally undermined for the first time during the turbulent second decade of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 26 | On March 18 Najibullah formally announced for the first time that he was prepared to resign to further the progress of a UN peace plan , the initial aim of which was to establish an interim , all-party government [ see p. 38811 ] . |
| 27 | At the 1970 Annual General Meeting as said above , rumblings of discontent about the relative rights and status of bondholders were formally voiced for the first time . |
| 28 | THE TV presenter Fiona Armstrong yesterday spoke for the first time about why she has quit the breakfast station GMTV — and dismissed talk about the notorious ‘ F ( for fanciability ) factor ’ . |
| 29 | These had been directly elected for the first time in 1986 [ see p. 34305 ] . |
| 30 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |