Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 2 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 3 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 5 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 6 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 7 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 8 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 9 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 10 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 11 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 12 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 13 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 14 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 15 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 16 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 17 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 18 | UN nuclear weapons expert Maurizio Zeffirero declared on Dec. 8 , following an inspection visit to Iraq , that the government had expressed its willingness for the first time to open discussions regarding foreign suppliers of its nuclear weapons programme . |
| 19 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 20 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 21 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 22 | FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time . |
| 23 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 24 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 25 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 26 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 27 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 28 | And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter . |
| 29 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 30 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |