Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 8 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 13 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 14 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 15 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 16 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 17 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 18 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 19 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 20 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 21 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |