Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs .
2 For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't .
3 No music and the bar 's only open for the minimum time he can get away with .
4 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 .
5 For the first time they will know what the fans think . ’
6 For the first time we can differentiate the local atomic order around sodium from that surrounding calcium and from the atomic environment of silicon .
7 For the first time we can measure the true amount of perishable food we throw away and establish which lines are most often wasted because their sell-by-date has passed .
8 But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice .
9 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 .
10 He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end .
11 When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer .
12 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 .
13 For the first time I can imagine some dim trail of obsession , some weird recursive delusion , leading out of this little room , down the spiral stairs , and out to some wildly mischosen destination …
14 When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar .
15 For the first time you can have electronic anti-lock brakes across the whole range , and on certain models you can specify refinements such as power steering , air conditioning and a CD player .
16 For the first time she could smell the dankness and the odour of rotting seaweed .
17 For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama .
18 We 've got an arrangement with the health authority about the maximum time we will take in assessing somebody for discharge from hospital .
19 All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love .
20 At the present time it can be inoculated into laboratory animals , in which it will multiply , and will produce an illness similar to the human disease in the higher apes .
21 But again , if you , if you have a little skill and a little experience , you know how to put a story particularly with some visual appeal as opposed to just sound appeal , then there is , if you 're in the right place at the right time you can get in .
22 At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) .
23 At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down .
24 They would be more effective and useful ; and at the same time they could be employed to reflect a new approach to the balance of education for which I have argued .
25 At the same time they could become excited about house matches or school matches and take part in such events with earnest aggressiveness .
26 When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire .
27 At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home .
28 at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work .
29 but at the same time they should n't just be looking at the subjects in isolation
30 At the same time they can interfere with the replication of normal viruses in the cell by using up raw materials .
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