Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 2 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 5 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 6 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 7 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 8 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 9 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 10 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |