Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft muslin cloth for the odd time I do n't want the work to get too hot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 5 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 13 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For the first time they struck her — both letter and box — as symbols of escape . |
| 19 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 20 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 21 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 22 | To those leaving we say thank you for your efforts during an especially difficult past two years and to those coming on board for the first time we wish you every success in the future . |
| 23 | At this point , Scorsese 's vision freezes — as it will throughout the movie — and for the first time we hear Henry 's thoughts on the matter . |
| 24 | At this point , Scorsese 's vision freezes — as it will throughout the movie — and for the first time we hear Henry 's thoughts on the matter . |
| 25 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 28 | For the first time we do n't have to scramble out of the hotel in a bad-tempered flurry of unwilling activity , whilst those boys hit the airport in their own good time . |
| 29 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 30 | 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 . |