Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 2 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 3 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 4 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 5 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 6 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 7 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 10 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 11 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 12 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 13 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 15 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 16 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |