Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 2 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 3 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 4 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 5 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 6 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 7 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 8 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 9 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 10 | Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time . |
| 11 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 12 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |
| 13 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 14 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 15 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |