Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 2 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 3 | Is the certificate worth the extra time and considerable effort involved on top of implementing a TQM programme ? |
| 4 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 5 | The North Region PGA brought an event to the Darlington municipal course for the first time and tournament controller Les Massey said : ‘ We ca n't fault this place . |
| 6 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 7 | So the subjects had clearly realized this aspect of the dynamic solution between doing the experiment for the first time and for the second . |
| 8 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 9 | When I tell you that , every year , 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer a stroke for the first time and that some of these may be unborn babies or small children , then I am sure that you will want to help . |
| 10 | The new accommodation means we are under one roof for the first time and this means communication between departments , a critical factor in my job , is improved tremendously . |
| 11 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 12 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 13 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 14 | He was a local lad and already a star in clubland , and I was a second-year apprentice comic visiting the north-east for the first time and decidedly wary of its reputation . |
| 15 | The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums . |
| 16 | She had the light on the whole time and the radio blaring . |
| 17 | A glance at the Financial Times or Money Management will reveal the large number and variety of offshore funds in existence . |
| 18 | Because of their different activity time clock , the owls are not competing with the hawks for the same food animals at the same time and can therefore co-exist . |
| 19 | It is assumed that for every action the operator has a purpose , the choice of the particular action at the particular time or point in the sequence is triggered by some other event , usually the successful completion of an action is indicated by a particular information presentation which also is noted on the chart . |
| 20 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 21 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 22 | This type of loving commitment can bring a marriage through the rough times and into full blossom again . |
| 23 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 24 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I saw her watching the girl for the longest time and finally she said , " Are those Indian beads ? " |
| 27 | HERE JACKIE HAYDEN TALKS TO TWO OF THE JUDGES FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION , DERMOT O'SHEA , ART EDITOR OF THE IRISH TIMES AND COLM HENRY , IRELAND 'S LEADING ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE CLIENTS INCLUDE U2 AND HOT PRESS , ABOUT THE COMPETITION IN PARTICULAR AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN GENERAL |
| 28 | Two others who also became central figures within Johnny 's Circus were Bobby 's friend peter Dunbar , later to become art editor of The Financial Times and subsequently The Economist , and an Italian youth called Eric Verrico who , though not interested in talking about books , occupied a definite position because of his astonishing good looks . |
| 29 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 30 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |