Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year .
2 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
3 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
4 I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work .
5 And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney .
6 I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked .
7 And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it .
8 I had trained for the first time only four days before !
9 The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour .
10 I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river .
11 I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money .
12 I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks .
13 I 've suspected for the last two weeks .
14 That I 've done for the first time in my life something original .
15 However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter .
16 In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain .
17 no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute
18 In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos .
19 All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings .
20 They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs .
21 One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society .
22 Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years .
23 It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons .
24 In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’
25 What do you want to do for the next two weeks ?
26 They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half .
27 Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years .
28 Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood .
29 It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time .
30 You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart .
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