Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 3 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 4 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 5 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 6 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 8 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 9 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 10 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 11 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 12 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 13 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 14 | An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time . |