Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time .
2 They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago .
3 The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time .
4 Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here .
5 And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years .
6 Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either .
7 I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't
8 You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time .
9 It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin .
10 Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time …
11 I had been telling him so for the last few weeks .
12 There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice .
13 They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours .
14 ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time .
15 Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger .
16 ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’
17 For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ?
18 Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford .
19 I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek .
20 ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign .
21 He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time .
22 Tomorrow , she promised — not of course that Ven was likely to want to accompany her anywhere for a third day in a row — but tomorrow she would insist on going sightseeing on her own .
23 he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year .
24 Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time .
25 Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives .
26 One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project .
27 Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size .
28 And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time .
29 The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) .
30 Have it there for the first month or something .
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