Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore George prepared Lennie for heaven by describing their dream to Lennie for the last time . |
| 2 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 3 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 4 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 5 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 6 | But winning the first three of the five-match one-day series has supplied a crucial tonic at a time when TV pictures were being screened back live to Pakistan for the first time . |
| 7 | This errand of death which took Nizan to Spain for the fourth time within fourteen months was symbolically appropriate . |
| 8 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 9 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 10 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 11 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 12 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 13 | Richard Hannon fields two of the nine runners in the ‘ Heinz 57 ’ Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown and his Son Pardo can bring the prize back to England for the eighth time in nine years . |
| 14 | The third wicket saw 81 added , Atherton presenting a broad bat-face to Mushtaq Ahmed 's spin mixture , before Smith fell to Mushtaq for the third time in seven Test innings . |
| 15 | The Kawasakis of Alan Irwin , Ian Simpson and Jim Moodie must also come into the equation , together with the Yamahas of Rymer , Johnny Rea and Alan Patterson , who is making the step up to Superbike for the first time . |
| 16 | When a child comes to Cizek for the first time , Cizek gives him materials , and the child draws what he likes . |
| 17 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 18 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 19 | It was ironic that Mr Lamont gave details of aid to BR at the same time as the old-world Princess Margaret Rose was steaming across the countryside to London 's Marylebone station to raise £2 million for the museum-like Great Central Railway . |
| 20 | Under DOE , Sun is also expected to add OMG 's Object Request Broker Architecture specification to Solaris around the same time — stuff like object adaptors and graphical user interface object facilities will follow thereafter . |
| 21 | Oxfordshire side Bicester are already on their way to Twickenham for the second time in two years . |
| 22 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 23 | It shows Picasso 's response to World War II , ‘ The charnel house ’ of 1945 , lent by MoMA to Europe for the first time . |
| 24 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 25 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 26 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 27 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
| 28 | American B-Fifty Two bombers have returned to Britain for the first time since the Gulf War . |
| 29 | Celtic 's defeat of Inter Milan in nineteen sixty seven brought the European cup to Britain for the first time . |
| 30 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |