Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 2 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 3 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 4 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 5 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 6 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 7 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 8 | When it was in the oven , I asked him if he 'd like me to clean up , wash the pastry board etc , and for the first time he let me . |
| 9 | Staggering , he put his weight against the door to close it , and for the first time he and the driver came face to face . |
| 10 | Collins was in his fifth final , having appeared twice each for Cardiff and Newport , and for the fourth time he was on the winning side . |
| 11 | He did that again three times on the way , and after the third time he was barely stumbling along , dragging the rifle . |
| 12 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 13 | Many a reader of The Possessed will have smiled at Von Lemke 's paper cut-outs — the conductor waving his baton , the bustling railway porter , the hell-fire gesticulating preacher — and at the same time he will have wondered why the microcosmic animated toys feel so supremely right for this novel . |
| 14 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 15 | Believe he could not , and at the same time he had no firm conviction that all was untrue . |
| 16 | Sharpe shouted , and at the same time he raked his spurs back so savagely that the exhausted and astonished mare jerked forward , almost spilling Sharpe out of his tall Hussar 's saddle . |
| 17 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 18 | He had enjoyed immense public prestige as Supreme Commander , Allied Forces , 1944–6 , and Supreme Commander , NATO , 1950–52 , and at the same time he had managed to remain above the political squabbles of the period . |
| 19 | She stumbled off the edge of the concrete path , and immediately his flashlight was directed towards the ground and at the same time he pressed her arm more tightly into his side , and like this they walked on until they reached the wood , and there their steps slowed and quietly he asked , ‘ Where 's he gone tonight ? ’ |
| 20 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 21 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 22 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 23 | But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak . |
| 24 | He was quite at home talking about Eisenstein or Brecht , Shakespeare or Godard , but at the same time he was completely rooted in the specificity of Bengal , its history , its literature and its culture . |
| 25 | As an analytical philosopher Honderich is keen to explore the logic of Conservatism and to demonstrate that it has none , but at the same time he engages with the history of Conservative ideas . |
| 26 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 27 | He was very sorry , but at the same time he could not help feeling excited by the prospect of owning a new jacket . |
| 28 | As a young man , Sewell appeared to some observers to be eccentric and reserved , but at the same time he was looked upon as a steady , attentive and exemplary apprentice . |
| 29 | But at the same time he composed a Third Concerto which he never played or published . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |