Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 2 | There will be 40 happy faces when the School ends tomorrow but there will also be a lot of tears and Whelan may even return for a seventh time . |
| 3 | The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time . |
| 4 | The roadway is closed to traffic by a turnpike , then , underneath a kind of Bridge of Sighs connecting the main block with the buildings attached to the Arch , it is closed again by a set of ornamental gates — and then closed for a third time by another turnpike . |
| 5 | On his return in 680 he was deprived of his relics by Iurminburg , imprisoned for nine months by Ecgfrith , and then expelled for a second time from the kingdom . |
| 6 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |