Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time .
2 The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time .
3 He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career .
4 It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues .
5 The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time .
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