Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
3 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
4 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
5 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
6 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
7 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
8 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
9 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
10 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
11 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
12 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
15 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
16 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
17 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
18 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
19 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
22 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
23 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
24 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
25 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
26 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
27 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
30 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |