Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
2 The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
3 I commandeered it without a second thought . ’
4 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
5 I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 .
6 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
7 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
8 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
9 Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago
10 I got it with the fourth one
11 I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all .
12 Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December .
13 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
14 there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one .
15 ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
16 ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
17 No I put it in the last two times .
18 Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time .
19 I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away .
20 Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them .
21 I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
22 ( Have I got it in the first place ?
23 I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time .
24 I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child .
25 Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time .
26 I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
30 To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of !
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