Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 2 | Although the appeals came when Russia was not yet ready to advance , for the second time she went immediately and unhesitatingly to the aid of her allies . |
| 3 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 4 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 5 | He did so by wandering the streets , and when for the second time he passed the food office where she worked , he knew what he was going to do . |
| 6 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 7 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 8 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 9 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 10 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 11 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 12 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 13 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 14 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 15 | For the first time they struck her — both letter and box — as symbols of escape . |
| 16 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 17 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 18 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 19 | For the first time it became clear that in manpower terms the USSR was deploying the largest R and D effort in the world . |
| 20 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 21 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 24 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 25 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 28 | For the first time he wavered in his determination to get rid of her . |
| 29 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 30 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |