Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid .
2 ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 .
3 They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers .
4 They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute .
5 They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 .
6 Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia .
7 But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher .
8 Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining .
9 ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time .
10 It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them .
11 In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience .
12 All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time .
13 They arrived at the same time ! ’
14 They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing .
15 Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting .
16 Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries .
17 Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico .
18 Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico .
19 There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ?
20 But then again there have n't really been any bands that have said what they felt in a long time . ’
21 Yeah they went into an upbeat time did n't they ?
22 They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy .
23 Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol .
24 They spoke at the same time .
25 By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement .
26 In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York .
27 London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year .
28 In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil .
29 They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering .
30 On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time .
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