Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 2 | That 's what I got prison for the last time . |
| 3 | I meet Perry for the first time at the Starry Arms in Kentish Town . |
| 4 | I attend college for the first time in weeks . |
| 5 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 7 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 8 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 9 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 10 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | There is a possible test for the establishment of a sense , which has consequences for the second family of tests for ambiguity described earlier . |
| 12 | But the king 's cause attracted a motley crew of discontents and zealots , and placed many moderate men in a dilemma over their allegiance to state or church which dominated politics for the next 150 years . |
| 13 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 14 | This issue figured strongly in the election campaign , and appeared to benefit the Centre Party , which won seats for the first time . |
| 15 | For instance , in the Villa Alta dialect of Zapotec ( Mexico ) , it is necessary to distinguish between events which take place for the first time with respect to particular participants and those which are repetitions . |
| 16 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 17 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |
| 18 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 19 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 20 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 21 | When we make love for the second time this throbbing afternoon it is like lingering over liqueurs by a log fire . |
| 22 | We swopped experiences for the last time . |
| 23 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 24 | Recent trends in the geography of voting in Great Britain pose major problems for all political parties as they develop strategies for the next general election . |
| 25 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 26 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 27 | The Arab participants in the negotiations attended the Islamic Conference Organization Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Jeddah in late November where they discussed strategy for the eighth round . |
| 28 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 29 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 30 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |