Example sentences of "my [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 2 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 3 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 4 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 5 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 6 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 7 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 8 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 9 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 10 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 11 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 12 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 13 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 14 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 15 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 16 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 17 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 19 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 20 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 22 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 23 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 24 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 25 | My target for the first 6 games was 10 points . |