Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor had he wished to leave the capital a second time . |
| 5 | " No , no , I wo n't risk the crossing a second time . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They toured the house a second time and Mary Rose began to think about drapes and colour schemes . |
| 9 | Doyle waited impatiently , ringing the bell a second time , watching his solemn-faced partner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had to show the print a second time to censorship boards to convince them they had imagined the nudity . |