Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 2 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 3 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 5 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 6 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 7 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 8 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 9 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 10 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 11 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 12 | Tomorrow Barry visits Northampton for the first time since surgeons at the local hospital saved his legs from amputation . |
| 13 | At that meeting he said he hoped that if Germany occupied Czechoslovakia the move would paralyse Poland at the same time . |
| 14 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 15 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 16 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 17 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 18 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 19 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 20 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 21 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 22 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 23 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 24 | I said would it , in order now just to deal with the amendment on my own sir or support Mr at the same time ? |
| 25 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
| 26 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 28 | Many would claim that the teaching of Jesus is still relevant and that it is virtually impossible to be totally committed to amassing wealth and to serve God at the same time . |
| 29 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 30 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |