Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 2 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 3 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |
| 4 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 5 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
| 6 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 7 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 8 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 9 | Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making . |
| 10 | Earlier Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes said that in a month Mr Lamont could announce proposals which would make 10 million people ineligible for legal aid yet at the same time he had been ‘ allowed £4,000 , his own private legal aid scheme , to pay his own private bill for an entirely private matter ’ . |
| 11 | Yet at the same time he was edging back from his long concern with heroic valour , or hobbitic moral courage . |
| 12 | He examined her carapace , her tough coiled-spring legs ; and knew that he was examining Meh'Lindi intimately , yet at the same time he was n't . |
| 13 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 14 | The President issued a series of neutrality proclamations , yet at the same time he persuaded Congress to extend the " cash and carry " principle to include armaments . |
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