Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
| 2 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 3 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 4 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 5 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |