Example sentences of "he [prep] the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 2 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 4 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 5 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 6 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 7 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 8 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 9 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 10 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 11 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 12 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 13 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |