Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 2 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 3 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 4 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 5 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 6 | ‘ I shut my eyes for the second one , ’ joked MacDonald . |
| 7 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 9 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 10 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 11 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 12 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 13 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 14 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 15 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 16 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 17 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 19 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 20 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 21 | I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 22 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 23 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 25 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 26 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 28 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 29 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 30 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |