Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 2 | The memories were vague and dream-like , not associated with the world in which he now lived , but he was well aware that the relatively brief time he spent on the island had changed his life irreversibly . |
| 3 | Tina had told Jack the very first time they met : ‘ My dad hates the place — like my brothers do . ’ |
| 4 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 5 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |
| 6 | The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning . |
| 7 | The very first time I saw you around I only said hello and I said hi . |
| 8 | The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy . |
| 9 | I remember ( the very first time I met him ) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all . |
| 10 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 11 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 12 | His mouth closed over hers again , the touch of it as intoxicating as it had been the very first time he had kissed her . |
| 13 | He was brilliant the very first time he ran . |
| 14 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 15 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 16 | The narrator , waxing enthusiastic at this reception , contrived to relate how the fisherman took ‘ Old Charley ’ in his boat the Irene round the foreland to Margate the very last time he came down to Broadstairs . |