Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 3 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 4 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 5 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 6 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 7 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 8 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 11 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 12 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 13 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 14 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 15 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 16 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 17 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 18 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 19 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 20 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 21 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 22 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |