Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 2 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 4 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 5 | Barely eighteen months ago after the last time , what are we doing ? |
| 6 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 7 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 8 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 9 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 10 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 11 | Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side . |
| 12 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 13 | He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks . |
| 14 | It means giving a word of knowledge or prophecy perhaps for the first time . |
| 15 | DISCUSSIONS between management and representatives of the 1,300 striking manual workers at Yarrow took place yesterday for the first time since the dispute began 12 days ago . |
| 16 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 17 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 18 | Open me post now for the first time , oh oh that 's nice oh I can have a update for supply teachers , Wednesday the fifteenth of April , you baby sit for me ? |
| 19 | ‘ Doctor Little ! ’ repeated Tom loudly for the third time . |
| 20 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 21 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 22 | It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex . |
| 23 | You gaze at each other properly for the first time . |
| 24 | Thirdly , in some areas — notably health protection , educational exchanges , vocational training and culture — we have defined Community competence clearly for the first time . |
| 25 | Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months . |
| 26 | I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow ! |
| 27 | Mr Ashdown descended on the area yesterday for the third time in his marathon campaign amid growing recognition among Tories that the South-West could prove their Achilles ' heel , a danger underlined by the Press Association opinion poll which showed a swing against the Conservatives in the region of six per cent . |
| 28 | CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said . |
| 29 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 30 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |