Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours . |
| 2 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 3 | Maybe other irate walkers would bear that in mind the next time they see the army out on an exercise . |
| 4 | In fact the only time we see unbedded sediments , apart from comparatively small thicknesses of in situ reef development , we can almost always find evidence of the destruction of the bedding planes by recrystallisation or by the burrowing activity of organisms . |
| 5 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 6 | ‘ Madge brought the material back from Vienna the last time she went on a buying trip — it is not part of the Luxembourg budget , I hasten to add and , wonderful creature that she is , she threw it together on an evening when Wardrobe were n't using one of their machines . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 8 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I read somewhere of how Steve McQueen had been on drugs the whole time we were shooting Bullitt . |
| 10 | Felt guilty as hell the first time I went on there ! |
| 11 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |