Example sentences of "[that] [prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 2 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 3 | The intactness of the tomb meant that for the first time it was possible to analyse fully how the many objects found within it were used , and their ritual and social implications within the Sicàn culture better understood . |
| 4 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 5 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 6 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 7 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 8 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 9 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 10 | He will tell members of the county 's public protection committee that at the same time it has become increasingly difficult to man the main consumer advice centres in Durham , Darlington and Bishop Auckland . |
| 11 | You need to have that and it is no bad thing provided , of course , that at the same time you are prepared to listen and benefit from good advice . |
| 12 | I am therefore requesting , in accordance with the confidentiality undertaking , that the Information memorandum is returned to me and that at the same time you confirm in writing that you and your advisers have destroyed any further copies of the documentation . |
| 13 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 14 | The incongruity was that at the same time he was convinced of retribution in this world . |
| 15 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |
| 16 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |