Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 2 | Nichols went to see the play a second time , then a call went out to Dustin 's agent , and arrangements were made to fly the actor out to his home town for a screen test . |
| 3 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 4 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
| 5 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 6 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 7 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 8 | Will you let me go again on the basis I made a cock-up the first time round . |
| 9 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 10 | Nor had he wished to leave the capital a second time . |
| 11 | " No , no , I wo n't risk the crossing a second time . " |
| 12 | The effect of reading a Bill a second time is to curb further debate on the general principle for the time being and cause the Bill to go straight to the next stage , which is the committee stage . |
| 13 | Critics of the administration 's policy claimed that some Haitians who had fled the country a second time , after being repatriated in 1991 , had given evidence of persecution in interviews to UN officials . |
| 14 | They toured the house a second time and Mary Rose began to think about drapes and colour schemes . |
| 15 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 16 | But Harry spoke a bit the last time we went , he said So what hire a car . |
| 17 | Doyle waited impatiently , ringing the bell a second time , watching his solemn-faced partner . |
| 18 | Aye , you only had , had a brew the second time you really do at our house |
| 19 | They walk onto court with untuned muscles and joints in cold weather and then wonder why they pull a muscle the first time that they stretch for the ball . |
| 20 | If by chance you have already visited Craigendarroch under the terms of this special invitation , I very much regret that we are unable to make the offer a second time . |
| 21 | He had to show the print a second time to censorship boards to convince them they had imagined the nudity . |
| 22 | If , therefore , the pointer reads " here " and we blink our eyes and look at it again we shall certainly find the pointer the second time still stolidly sitting at the mark " here " . |