Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 6 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 7 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 8 | It is eager to scotch rumours that the withdrawal of the Official Custodian will mean that its COIF ( Charities Official Investment Funds ) common investment funds will also disappear , and for the first time it has issued a brochure to advertise its products . |
| 9 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 10 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 11 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |
| 12 | For the first time he had lost some of his assurance . |
| 13 | For the first time he had been unable to recover his self-possession , to escape from his humiliation . |
| 14 | For the first time he had been nudged slightly off balance . |
| 15 | For the first time he has the respect of all sections of his party . |
| 16 | For the first time he has revealed that his controversial substitution in the European Championship finals came after a series of confrontations . |
| 17 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 18 | For the first time I had to tell my story logically , and the effort which this entailed , under the critical questioning of the Inspector , dispelled some of the depression which I felt . |
| 19 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 20 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 21 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | A great girl and we were very happy for the short time we had . ’ |
| 24 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 25 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 26 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 27 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 28 | Here you see the Sheffield ladies , Pauline [ branch secretary ] , Diane [ sales controller ] , Joan [ service controller ] and Sue [ receptionist ] still talking about the fantastic time they had . |
| 29 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 30 | That 's about the only time I 've liked it here . ’ |