Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for the [adj] " 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 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 4 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 5 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 8 | Having all four styles comfortably within your repertoire thus equips you best for the total process of learning from experience . |
| 9 | Thank you also for the many beautiful tributes and the donations sent for the Cynthia Spencer Unit . |
| 10 | Thank you also for the ten pound cheque which I 'll be donating to Cancer Research , Yours sincerely , Angela . |
| 11 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
| 13 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 14 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 19 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 20 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 27 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 30 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |