Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 9 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 10 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 14 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 15 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 16 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 17 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 20 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 21 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 30 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |