Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] a [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Julie saw him reach for the doorbell a third time she opened the door and eased it back to the extent of the chain . |
| 2 | He reached for the lamp a second time , feeling the bed shake as the harridan prepared to make her escape . |
| 3 | The pilot again tipped the canard on the edge of a stall and we dived for the field a second time . |
| 4 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 5 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 6 | Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelming sense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time . |
| 7 | The resulting cohesion ‘ lies in the continuity of reference , whereby the same thing enters into the discourse a second time ’ ( Halliday and Hasan , 1976 : 31 ) . |
| 8 | He reached under the saddle a second time and drew out the steel-tipped phallus that was attached by a chain to the pommel . |
| 9 | Moving the special report , Section and Industrial Conferences and also President if I may , at the same time , moving motion one one one A on behalf of the C E C , rather than returning to the rostrum a second time . |
| 10 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 11 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 12 | Vietnam and the UK had signed an agreement in principle on forced repatriation on Oct. 29 , 1991 [ see p. 38531 ] , but Vietnam had at that time only agreed to immediate repatriation of new arrivals and so-called " double-backers " — people who had fled to the colony a second time . |
| 13 | The remainder of the finishers were either remounted or put to the fence a second time . |
| 14 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |