Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 6 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 7 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 8 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 9 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 10 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 16 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 17 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 18 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 19 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 20 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) It is for the person who owed any duty under subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) if he gave consent and the question arises whether he gave it within a reasonable time , to show that he did , ( b ) if he gave consent subject to any condition and the question arises whether the condition was a reasonable condition , to show that it was , ( c ) if he did not give consent and the question arises whether it was reasonable for him not to do so , to show that it was reasonable , and , if the question arises whether he served notice under that subsection within a reasonable time , to show that he did . |
| 22 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 23 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 24 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 25 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 26 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 27 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |