Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
2 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
3 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ Well , like , ten minutes ago , because I need it for the next programme . ’ |
9 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
10 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
11 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
12 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
13 | The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading . |
14 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
15 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
16 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
17 | Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ? |
18 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
19 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
20 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
21 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |