Example sentences of "[coord] the [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
2 | Unlike the way he had spoken to her earlier , or the previous time they had met . |
3 | Not that time , nor the next time they went ; nor the next , nor the next … |
4 | Indeed , the basic model assumes that wages and prices are fixed and the only time we allowed them to rise was after the attainment of full employment . |
5 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
6 | They let me get on with my job and the only time I see them is to get things rubber-stamped . ’ |
7 | Jayne , it seems , never spoke to Isabelle and the only time she smiled at her was when she learnt that Chris and Isabelle were splitting up . |
8 | And when I say the country I do n't mean one of those villages just off the motorway full of people just like us buying Australian Chardonnay from the local wine merchant and the only time you hear an ooo-aarr accent is when you 're listening to the Archers in the bath . |
9 | You 're going to get a real whipping now , and the only time you speak is to tell us you 're ready to inform on your friends . |
10 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
11 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
12 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
13 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
14 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
15 | He thought of Claire Fraser , and the first time they had met , at Brandon Manor in the heart of the Cotswolds . |
16 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
17 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
18 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |
19 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
20 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
21 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
22 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
23 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
24 | ‘ And the first time I do it I hurt you . |
25 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
26 | It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience . |
27 | And the first time she met Luke she stepped up and kissed him passionately on the lips . |
28 | And the second time we goes up . |
29 | The first time we went without Chrissy , and the second time we did . |
30 | and the second time she had it done it was very unfortunate because I |