Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] 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 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 .
8 I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
12 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’
16 I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time .
17 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
18 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
19 She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week .
20 You saw him for the last time in 1959 .
21 In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale .
22 Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended .
23 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 .
24 This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III
25 He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two .
26 Just then he noticed me for the first time .
27 It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us .
28 When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more .
29 It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time .
30 He saw me for the first time .
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