Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis .
2 ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time .
3 We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season .
4 It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round .
5 Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre .
6 When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning .
7 He looked for a last time at Lucille .
8 He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter .
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