Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 32 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 33 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 34 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 35 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 36 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 37 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 38 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 39 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 40 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 41 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 42 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 43 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 44 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 45 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 46 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 47 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 48 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 49 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 50 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 51 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 52 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 53 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 54 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 55 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 56 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 57 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 58 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 59 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 60 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |