Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 32 | Well you snip them at the growing time . |
| 33 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 34 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 35 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 36 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 37 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I 'll bring yours up the same time , in a few minutes . ’ |
| 40 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 41 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 42 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 43 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 44 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 45 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 46 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 47 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 48 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 49 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 50 | I love you … ’ she heard herself whispering , one detached part of her intellect aghast at the vulnerable openness of her confession , surprising her at the same time with the shocking truth . |
| 51 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 52 | catch him at the right time . |
| 53 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 54 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 55 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 56 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 57 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 58 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 59 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 60 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |