Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 2 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 3 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 4 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 6 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 7 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 8 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 9 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 11 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 12 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 13 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 14 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 15 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 16 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 17 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 18 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 19 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 20 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 21 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 22 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 23 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 24 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 25 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 26 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 27 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 28 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 29 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 30 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |