Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 2 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 3 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 4 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 5 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 6 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 7 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |
| 8 | For the first time he had lost some of his assurance . |
| 9 | For the first time he had been unable to recover his self-possession , to escape from his humiliation . |
| 10 | For the first time he had been nudged slightly off balance . |
| 11 | For the first time I had to tell my story logically , and the effort which this entailed , under the critical questioning of the Inspector , dispelled some of the depression which I felt . |
| 12 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 13 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 14 | A great girl and we were very happy for the short time we had . ’ |
| 15 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 18 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 19 | Here you see the Sheffield ladies , Pauline [ branch secretary ] , Diane [ sales controller ] , Joan [ service controller ] and Sue [ receptionist ] still talking about the fantastic time they had . |
| 20 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 21 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 22 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |
| 23 | And with the kiss came a sudden rush of memories ; not of the arguments , the long silences , the hurtful remarks , but of the good times they had had together . |
| 24 | I had a long chat with during the trip when , amongst other topics , we recalled the days of the agricultural show season and some of the hectic times we had , especially at the Norfolk and Suffolk shows . |
| 25 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 26 | At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering . |
| 27 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 28 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 29 | But think of the last time you had a meal out and the service you encountered . |
| 30 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |