Example sentences of "and the [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , the basic model assumes that wages and prices are fixed and the only time we allowed them to rise was after the attainment of full employment . |
2 | Jayne , it seems , never spoke to Isabelle and the only time she smiled at her was when she learnt that Chris and Isabelle were splitting up . |
3 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
4 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
5 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
6 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
7 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
8 | He thought of Claire Fraser , and the first time they had met , at Brandon Manor in the heart of the Cotswolds . |
9 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
10 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
11 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |
12 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
13 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
14 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
15 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
16 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
17 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
18 | And the first time she met Luke she stepped up and kissed him passionately on the lips . |
19 | The first time we went without Chrissy , and the second time we did . |
20 | and the second time she had it done it was very unfortunate because I |
21 | The first time she nearly burnt me in my bed , and the second time she visited you , and must have been reminded of her own wedding day by seeing your wedding dress . ’ |
22 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
23 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
24 | The first time I killed a wild animal , and the second time I caught a big turtle . |
25 | The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully . |
26 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
27 | I mean er , I mean , what , and the last time we went in , in , to tea in actual fact , we were in er a so-called four stroke five bedded apartment which was twenty two square metres |
28 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
29 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |
30 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |