Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 2 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 3 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 4 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 5 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 6 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 7 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 8 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 9 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 10 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 11 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 12 | It hangs over me the whole time . |
| 13 | copy to you the first time |
| 14 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 15 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 16 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |