Example sentences of "for [art] [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 2 | In fact , with his book of Spanish Civil War photographs , for the second edition he did not want them retouched ; he wanted the scratches , etc , left in because there was that feeling about it . |
| 3 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 4 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 5 | For the first time we do n't have to scramble out of the hotel in a bad-tempered flurry of unwilling activity , whilst those boys hit the airport in their own good time . |
| 6 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |