Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ? |
| 3 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 4 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 5 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 6 | She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned . |
| 7 | ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time . |
| 8 | We go for a second hand suite as well or |
| 9 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 10 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 11 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 12 | Spurs are missing six first-teamers , including Anderton , Paul Allen and Gordon Durie , as they bid for a fifth successive clean sheet against Manchester City at Maine Road today . |
| 13 | When students ask " how do you start an essay ? " they usually mean what should they write for a first sentence . |
| 14 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 15 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 16 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 17 | In America , says Mr Rathje , it accounts for a fifth of landfill space . |
| 18 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 19 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |