Example sentences of "that [noun] [prep] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 2 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 3 | Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing . |
| 4 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 5 | At the same election the Republicans gained twelve seats in the Senate and won control of that chamber for the first time in twenty-five years . |
| 6 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |