Example sentences of "[verb] i for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 3 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 4 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 5 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 6 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 7 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 8 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 9 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 10 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 11 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 12 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 13 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 14 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 15 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 16 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 17 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 18 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 19 | … 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 . |
| 20 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 21 | Here to stay for at least for another year and to haunt me for the next fifteen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As we pass the top of the stairs the thought hits me for the thousandth time . |
| 24 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |