Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 2 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 3 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 4 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 5 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 6 | An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time . |