Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [prep] 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 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 3 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 4 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 5 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 6 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 7 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 8 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 9 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 10 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 11 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 12 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 13 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 14 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 15 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 16 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 17 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 18 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 19 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
| 20 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 21 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
| 22 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 23 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 24 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 25 | Everything she had tried to achieve for herself during the last four years would have to be tossed away , useless . |
| 26 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |