Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 2 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 7 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 8 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 9 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 14 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ? |