Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the [adj] 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 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 4 | This does s seem to be in line with with practice nationally at the present time . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 6 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 7 | Barely eighteen months ago after the last time , what are we doing ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Come and get warm , ’ said David almost at the same time as Anthony was saying : |
| 10 | Earlier Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes said that in a month Mr Lamont could announce proposals which would make 10 million people ineligible for legal aid yet at the same time he had been ‘ allowed £4,000 , his own private legal aid scheme , to pay his own private bill for an entirely private matter ’ . |
| 11 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |
| 12 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 13 | At times , the relay race may have the appearance of a rugby game , as players move downfield together at the same time , each playing their specific role . |
| 14 | Please note that letters must be your own original work and must not be offered for publication elsewhere at the same time . |
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| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 18 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 21 | A more immediate issue concerns the consequences for labour of a structure which gives priority to flexibility yet at the same time promises a lifetime of permanent employment which seems to imply inflexibility . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It means giving a word of knowledge or prophecy perhaps for the first time . |
| 26 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 29 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 30 | 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 ? |