Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [num ord] [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friends ridiculed her , seeing for the first time how the balance in their relationship had shifted in favour of adorable Diana . |
| 2 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 3 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 4 | However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona . |
| 5 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 6 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 7 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 8 | The bewildered children of his son Robert learnt for the first time how their apparently benevolent grandfather really viewed their father . |
| 9 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 10 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 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 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 14 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 15 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 16 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |
| 17 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 18 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |
| 19 | It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath . |
| 20 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 21 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 22 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 23 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 24 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |