Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 2 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 3 | We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us . |
| 4 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 5 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 6 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 7 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |