Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
2 I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
3 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 .
4 It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort .
5 That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
6 The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad .
7 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
8 In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale .
9 Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended .
10 Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
11 This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III
12 As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed .
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