Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] 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 Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time .
6 ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
7 ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
8 He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind .
17 Charles pressed it for a long time .
18 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
19 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 .
20 ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
21 It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us .
22 When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more .
23 As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance .
24 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 .
25 Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 .
26 this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out
27 We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was .
28 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
29 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
30 Leo asked her for the second time .
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