Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 2 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 3 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 4 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 5 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 6 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 7 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 8 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 9 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 10 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 11 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 12 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 13 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 14 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 15 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |
| 16 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 17 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 18 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 19 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 20 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 21 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 22 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 23 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 24 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 25 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 26 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 27 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 28 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 29 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 30 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |