Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 2 | Information from boreholes etc. had been collected by the Survey since its formation but the new Act made the task a full time job . |
| 3 | Nichols went to see the play a second time , then a call went out to Dustin 's agent , and arrangements were made to fly the actor out to his home town for a screen test . |
| 4 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 5 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
| 6 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S success in being chosen Environment City has won the town a prime time slot on national radio . |
| 7 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 8 | The defence is solid … remember we were playing Wimbledon … the last thing they do is give the defence an easy time — I thought they coped well and limited Wimbledon to a few shot from the edge of the box — which beeney coped with admirably . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na give the shepherd a rough time of it ! |
| 10 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 11 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 12 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 13 | Nor had he wished to leave the capital a second time . |
| 14 | Thus if the chargee is entitled to payment on demand he is not required to give the company a reasonable time in which to raise the funds to make payment and is only required to give the company time in which to put into effect the mechanics of payment . |
| 15 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 16 | " No , no , I wo n't risk the crossing a second time . " |
| 17 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 18 | The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of . |
| 19 | Critics of the administration 's policy claimed that some Haitians who had fled the country a second time , after being repatriated in 1991 , had given evidence of persecution in interviews to UN officials . |
| 20 | They toured the house a second time and Mary Rose began to think about drapes and colour schemes . |
| 21 | The influence of a business contact or personal friend wins you over to new tactics making the weekend a crucial time in your future decisions and options . |
| 22 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 23 | The health ministry could have ended the problem a long time ago — it 's one of the biggest scandals in public health at the moment . |
| 24 | Doyle waited impatiently , ringing the bell a second time , watching his solemn-faced partner . |
| 25 | To make the appointment a full time one , perhaps encapsulating teams at all levels would require sponsorship to meet the necessary salary . |
| 26 | If by chance you have already visited Craigendarroch under the terms of this special invitation , I very much regret that we are unable to make the offer a second time . |
| 27 | He had to show the print a second time to censorship boards to convince them they had imagined the nudity . |
| 28 | If , therefore , the pointer reads " here " and we blink our eyes and look at it again we shall certainly find the pointer the second time still stolidly sitting at the mark " here " . |