Example sentences of "and [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was soon aware of his fat thigh pressing against hers , and each time they passed a gas lamp he turned to look at her . |
| 2 | And each time we visited the mountains , we would find the Syrians not an inch nor even a metre but at least a mile nearer to Beirut . |
| 3 | I was hanging from my wing down the length of the pole , the wind strong enough to pull and toss my body against it , and each time it did the pain at my wing was so terrible that I cried out . |
| 4 | Then I went out again , chequebooking in the West End , got arrested again and this time I got a six-month sentence . |
| 5 | I decided to go to sea again , and this time I joined a ship sailing to the islands in the South Pacific Ocean . |
| 6 | ‘ Burnt it ? ’ said Theodora , and this time she made no attempt to disguise her surprise . |
| 7 | Matilda , sitting in the second row about ten feet away from Miss Honey , put her.elbows on the desk and cupped her face in her hands , and this time she gave the order right at the beginning . |
| 8 | Another well-timed cover-drive beat the fielder and this time it reached the boundary . |
| 9 | And this time he had a knife . |
| 10 | He read the personal notes again , and this time he raised an eyebrow . |
| 11 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 12 | And this time he let the contempt enter his voice . |
| 13 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 14 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |