Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 32 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 34 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 35 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 36 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 37 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 38 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 39 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 40 | Saw them at the same time , change of address . |
| 41 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 42 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 43 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 44 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 45 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 46 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 47 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 48 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 49 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 50 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 51 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 52 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 53 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 54 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 55 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 56 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 57 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 58 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 59 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 60 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |