Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] time [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year .
2 Well do n't squeeze your nose for the second time or it wo n't come that 's better that 's it .
3 He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative .
4 This is a small amount in relation to our subscriptions which reached one million pounds for the first time but it does pose problems .
5 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
6 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
7 This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception .
8 He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility .
9 The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade .
10 I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long .
11 When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house .
12 For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 .
13 ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says .
14 With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 .
15 Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence .
16 Highlight is the Manx International over three laps ( 113 miles ) , which goes back Am/Pro for the first time since it started in 1936 .
17 ‘ Last time , ’ he grins , ‘ one guy said , ‘ I just kissed a man for the first time and it felt good . ’
18 I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow !
19 His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself .
20 Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit .
21 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
22 I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street .
23 In 1280 , for example , ‘ the metes and bounds of the New Forest from the first time that it was afforested ’ were said to extend from the Test westwards to the Avon , and from the Solent northwards to the Wiltshire county boundary .
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