Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 2 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 3 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 4 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 5 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 6 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 7 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 8 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 9 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 10 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 11 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 12 | And the chamber seemed darker beyond the elapsed time . |
| 13 | Tokyo touched 26000 for the first time since last August . |
| 14 | Perhaps I should go no further without declaring an allegiance to Neath which survived some of the grimmer times in the club 's history . |
| 15 | A rib cage injury forced Pringle to leave the ground after five overs , in which he conceded only six for Haynes 's wicket , and Simmons then broke free for the second time with devastating effect . |
| 16 | Erteco , for example , broke even for the first time only last year . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 18 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 19 | Their report , published by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , draws on climate data made available for the first time to the West by the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences . |
| 20 | Complaints of headaches should be taken seriously and genetic counselling made available at the appropriate time . |
| 21 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 22 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 23 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 24 | Collections do n't have to be expensive , or acquired all at the same time . |
| 25 | Braniff Airlines went bust for the third time . |
| 26 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 27 | I remembered some of the nice times we 'd had . |
| 28 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 29 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 30 | I said this at the last time we discussed this . |