Example sentences of "[prep] he for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 3 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 4 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 5 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 8 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 9 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 10 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 11 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 12 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 13 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
| 14 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 15 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
| 16 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
| 17 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 18 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 20 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 21 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 22 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |