Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 3 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 4 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 5 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 11 | Tomorrow , she promised — not of course that Ven was likely to want to accompany her anywhere for a third day in a row — but tomorrow she would insist on going sightseeing on her own . |
| 12 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 13 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 16 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 17 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 18 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 19 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 20 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 21 | The house is all straight and you 're tired and then the kids come home from school and upset the house again , so you remake it again for the next day . |
| 22 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |