Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ?
2 ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan .
3 She asked for a second helping of spinach .
4 She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan .
5 She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned .
6 ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time .
7 We go for a second hand suite as well or
8 We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season .
9 In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft .
10 When students ask " how do you start an essay ? " they usually mean what should they write for a first sentence .
11 The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune .
12 Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre .
13 When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning .
14 He looked for a last time at Lucille .
15 He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter .
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