Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 32 | Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really . |
| 33 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 34 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 35 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 36 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 37 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 38 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 39 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 40 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 41 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 42 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 43 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 44 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 45 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 46 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 47 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 48 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 50 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 51 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 52 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 53 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 54 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 55 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 56 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 57 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 58 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 59 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 60 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |