Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 2 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 3 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 4 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 5 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 6 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 7 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 8 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |
| 9 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 10 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 11 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 12 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 13 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 14 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 15 | And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm . |
| 16 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 17 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 18 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 19 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 20 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 21 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 22 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 23 | It sounds like the Velvet Underground mixed with … ’ — and she searches for the appropriate ingredient — ‘ … with Nico . ’ |
| 24 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 25 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 26 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 27 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 28 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 29 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |