Example sentences of "i [vb past] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 32 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 33 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 34 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 35 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 36 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |