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

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1 Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico .
2 Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico .
3 Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career .
4 It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath .
5 I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session .
6 An Irish audience saw the All Blacks for the first time when they trained at Donnybrook on Monday , and the first impression of Mick Quinn , the former international fly-half , was : ‘ The omens are not good .
7 After moving to Grimsetter and Hatston respectively , this unit embarked aboard the carrier HMS Indefatigable , and in the period July 14 to 19 , 1944 , took its Fireflies into action for the first time when they supported FAA raids on the German battleship Tirpitz by attacking gun positions and two German naval vessels .
8 This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents .
9 In the final RUGBY UNION : Middlesbrough Wasps reached the final of the North Yorkshire Trophy for the first time when they beat Rowntrees 11–6 at Acklam Park yesterday .
10 Belgian hotshot Florence Descampe tasted US victory for the first time when she defied the cream of the LPGA Tour to win the Stratton Mountain Classic in Vermont .
11 Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner .
12 He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship .
13 It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen .
14 Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant .
15 Charlie 's hearing was fully restored a week later and a smile appeared on his lips for the first time when he saw Grace standing by his side pouring him a cup of tea .
16 I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old .
17 He looked at me for the first time when I said this .
18 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
19 I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me .
20 I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds .
21 And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
22 You are entering the market for the first time when you write a letter about yourself to either agent , casting director , producer or director .
23 ST ALOYSIUS College won the Bank of Scotland Scottish Schools Cup for the third time when they defeated Galashiels Academy by three tries to two at Meggetland .
24 But the starry-eyed youngster and his mother , Fawns , got a real taste of the big time when they saw last night 's programme going out live from the control room of Studio One at Television Centre .
25 This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse .
26 It is the goodness of the years we have lived through , of the old time when we did this and that , when we dwelt here or there .
27 Second , only rarely would a coin have been lost at or near the same time when it was made ; we must bear in mind how long a particular type of coin is likely to have stayed in circulation .
28 I ca n't recall as to the exact time when I learned of that instruction , but I was aware that the instruction had been given
29 The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review .
30 Her first instinct was to turn and walk straight back to the changing-rooms ; after all , had n't she come here at the one time when she 'd thought David Markham was safely out of the way ?
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