Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] time [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 32 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 33 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 34 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 35 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 36 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 37 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 38 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 39 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 40 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 41 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |
| 42 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 43 | A Soviet official argued at the same time that Warsaw Pact proposals on the non-expansion of military-political groupings in Europe and on limiting the scale of military exercises also involved the interests of the non-aligned countries since ‘ the tendency towards expanding the NATO bloc directly affects the newly independent countries ’ . |
| 44 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 45 | I also stayed for the required time that politeness dictates . |