Example sentences of "the [adj] time he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 2 | It was n't very good shooting , but the second time he made it stick . |
| 3 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |
| 6 | Now for the first time he touched her skin , the skin of her forehead , with his fingertips . |
| 7 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |
| 8 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 9 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 10 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 13 | For the first time he told himself that he was fully at home in his work . |
| 14 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 15 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 16 | For the first time he turned his head and looked at her . |
| 17 | When it was in the oven , I asked him if he 'd like me to clean up , wash the pastry board etc , and for the first time he let me . |
| 18 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 19 | When we got to the market , for the first time he allowed me to bargain with the dealers . |
| 20 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 21 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 22 | The first time he tried it , with elastic supports round his wrists , Anne Heaton was terrified and wondered whether she would live to tell the tale , but it worked . |
| 23 | The only time he opened it was to have food passed in and out . |
| 24 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 25 | At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov . |
| 26 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 27 | He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) . |
| 28 | She stumbled off the edge of the concrete path , and immediately his flashlight was directed towards the ground and at the same time he pressed her arm more tightly into his side , and like this they walked on until they reached the wood , and there their steps slowed and quietly he asked , ‘ Where 's he gone tonight ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 30 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |