Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 2 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 3 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 4 | To say they were worshipped would be overstating the case but , as in so many cultures where people are dependent on an animal for existence ( the Plains Indian and the buffalo , for example ) , the forerunners of the modern Koi were respected at the same time they were exploited . |
| 5 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 6 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 7 | Wait until the next time you choose . |
| 8 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 9 | There are no time limits so study can be matched to the available time you have . |
| 10 | Wait till the next time I see you . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 12 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 13 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 14 | She thought , perhaps he 's waiting till the next time we go , perhaps he 's biding his time … |
| 15 | So if you look at the next time you 're in the loo |
| 16 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 17 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 18 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 19 | You know you can hear everyone talking at the same it 's recording at the same time you can hear everyone talking like sort of really clearly . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the last time it occurred . |
| 21 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 22 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 23 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 24 | He thought of the last time he 'd seen Dad . |
| 25 | And we started her off and she went round and as she went past the second time she said I ca n't stop ! |
| 26 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 27 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 28 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 29 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 30 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |