Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 2 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 5 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 6 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 7 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 8 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 9 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 10 | Not for the first time he thought how monotonous it was , this unerring selection of inappropriate objects of desire . |
| 11 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 12 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 15 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 16 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 17 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 18 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |
| 19 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 20 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 21 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 22 | Not for the first time she wished she had a car . |
| 23 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 24 | ‘ Not since the last time you were here , Father . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Not till the next time you come , anyway , and that might not be for ages . ’ |
| 26 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |
| 27 | But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself . |
| 28 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 29 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 30 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |