Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |