Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 2 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 4 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 5 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 7 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 8 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 9 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 10 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |