Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 3 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 4 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 5 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 8 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 9 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 10 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 11 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 12 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 13 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 14 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 15 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 16 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 17 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 18 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 19 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 20 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 21 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 22 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , like , ten minutes ago , because I need it for the next programme . ’ |
| 24 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 25 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 26 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 27 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 28 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 30 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |