Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 3 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 4 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 5 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 6 | You will then need to go through all your entries to edit out your wrong spellings and inconsistencies since it is unlikely that you will have transcribed everything perfectly the first time . |
| 7 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 8 | Her drenched hair stranded her face , her pale lilac dress clung to her body , her eyelashes divided like a starfish as he pulled her out a second time . |
| 9 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 10 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 11 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 12 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 13 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |