Example sentences of "[verb] for the [num ord] [noun sg] how " 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 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |