Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 8 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 9 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 10 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 11 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 12 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 13 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 14 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 15 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 16 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 17 | We 'll stick with you for the next three months , with fresh advice on the latest findings in psychology and exercise , and more glorious recipes . |
| 18 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 19 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 20 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 21 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 22 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 23 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 24 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 25 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 26 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 27 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 28 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |
| 29 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 30 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |