Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 2 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 4 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 5 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 6 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 7 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 8 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |