Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 3 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 4 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 5 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 6 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 7 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 8 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 9 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
| 10 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 11 | I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal . |
| 12 | for him about the second half saying , you know that he would n't have said this , would n't have said that . |
| 13 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 14 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 15 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 16 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 17 | Together they had laboured in the fields until fortune smiled on Elizabeth ; while she was still in her teens , her family were befriended by a wealthy benefactor who had her educated and , in 1744 , arranged a marriage for her with the 13th Earl of Glencairn . |
| 18 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 19 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 20 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 21 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 22 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |
| 23 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 25 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |