Example sentences of "they [verb] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 2 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 3 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 5 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 8 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 9 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 10 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 11 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 12 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 13 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 14 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 15 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 16 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 17 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 18 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 19 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |