Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 2 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 3 | In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time . |
| 4 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 5 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 6 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 7 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 8 | These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates . |
| 9 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 10 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 11 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |
| 12 | Such links do exist at the present time , but they are the exception rather than the norm . |
| 13 | MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help . |
| 14 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 15 | ‘ Money-back ’ guarantee if we fail to deliver by the agreed time . |
| 16 | The three men start to speak at the same time . |
| 17 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 18 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 19 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 20 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 21 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 22 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 23 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 24 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 25 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 26 | The index can be seen as measuring the increase in gross taxable income required to compensate taxpayers for any increase in retail prices , taking into account any changes in direct taxation ( including employees ' National Insurance contributions ) which have occurred at the same time . |
| 27 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 28 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 29 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 30 | Paradoxically , the critics have appeared at the same time more radical and more conservative than the TUC . |