Example sentences of "[prep] the very [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , ’ she had responded , for the very first time since her arrival at Loch Lomond feeling unaccountably awkward and strange . |
| 2 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
| 3 | Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me . |
| 4 | For the very first time in her life she needed someone . |
| 5 | Well , in this view — quite possibly for the very first time in the history of their occupations — publishers and booksellers are wrong . |
| 6 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |
| 7 | ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has asked me to tell you how appreciative she is of your splendid BBC TV programme last Friday evening … knows what trouble you went to in the very limited time at your disposal … your wonderfully successful endeavour clear for all to see ’ , etc. , etc . |
| 8 | and ran the race three-legged , and finished in the very respectable time of five hours 21 minutes . |
| 9 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 10 | The theatre was completed in the very short time of two years . |
| 11 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |