Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 2 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 3 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 8 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 9 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 13 | Paradoxically , the critics have appeared at the same time more radical and more conservative than the TUC . |
| 14 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 15 | MEAN-HEARTED thieves have struck for the third time at the Wrexham depot of the Operation Christmas Child charity , stealing a fax machine used to send out vital documents for aid convoys . |
| 16 | That these killings have happened at the same time does n't help ’ |
| 17 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 18 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |