Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 4 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 7 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 8 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 9 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 10 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 11 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 12 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 13 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 14 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 15 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 16 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 17 | It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath . |
| 18 | More importantly still , it had provided for the first time an ‘ effective ’ means of redress for those wishing to complain that interception has been improperly authorized . |
| 19 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 20 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |
| 21 | Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been turned down . |
| 22 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 23 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 24 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 25 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 26 | By the time that Orchard made his last will in January 1504 he had married for a second time . |