Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 2 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 3 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 4 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 5 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 6 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 7 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 9 | The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same . |
| 10 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 11 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 12 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 13 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 14 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 16 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 17 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 18 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 19 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 20 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 21 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 22 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 23 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 24 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 25 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 26 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 27 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 28 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 29 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 30 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |