Example sentences of "[vb past] it for the [num ord] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 13 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 14 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 15 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 16 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |