Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast . |
| 2 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 3 | Brian Horton says that Joey is a proven scorer … he 's scored goals in the youth team … the reserves and hopefully keeps scoring for the first team … he 's exciting … and people love to watch wingers … |
| 4 | Villa-Flotilla is the safest way to sample cruising for the first time . |
| 5 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 6 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 7 | Teenagers at Haughton Comprehensive are working with the professionals from the Phoenix Dance Company as schools throughout the country prepare to teach dancing for the first time . |
| 8 | LUCKY Graham Frith , 35 , went fishing for the first time and caught almost 50 trout on the River Test in Hampshire . |
| 9 | I took that line , so the main , the main character goes skiing for the first time , ca n't do it , and is frustrated because everybody else around him can do it including his girlfriend which er adds insult to injury and there is in there of course , a very attractive dashing Austrian ski instructor ; that 's the catalyst really for the drama . |
| 10 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |