Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
2 I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times .
3 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
4 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
5 He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr .
6 Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands .
7 One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put .
8 Just then he noticed me for the first time .
9 ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time .
10 As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’
11 He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two .
12 They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time .
13 This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time .
14 Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time .
15 ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
16 ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
17 They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time .
18 Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium .
19 Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man .
20 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
21 I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away .
22 Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her .
23 I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time .
24 In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home .
25 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 .
26 The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind .
27 Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time .
28 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
29 ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
30 Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time .
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