Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time i " in BNC.

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1 While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer .
2 Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter .
3 As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ .
4 The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers .
5 But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself .
6 ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’
7 ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’
8 What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you .
9 Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian .
10 Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable .
11 ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says .
12 Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others .
13 Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
14 On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him .
15 Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick .
16 Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux .
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