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

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1 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
2 With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one .
3 He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour .
4 And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
5 I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me .
6 Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up .
7 Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn .
8 I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time .
9 In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor .
10 I went yesterday for the first time .
11 One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’
12 And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it .
13 I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened .
14 It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years .
15 as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness .
16 Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades .
17 The additional list of tempos by Czerny for Mozart quartets and quintets in table 1 , which appears here for the first time , also shows a similarly wide range of minuet tempos , from slow to fast ( for quartets and quintets , dotted minim = 44–84 ; together with the list of tempos by Czerny and Hummel for the Mozart symphonies , dotted minim = 42–88 see table 2 of my 1988 Early music article ) .
18 She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room .
19 When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ?
20 When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss .
21 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
22 It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists .
23 What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use .
24 She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since .
25 She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place .
26 She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there .
27 As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor .
28 So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance .
29 Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day .
30 Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope .
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