Example sentences of "[adj] time they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time they mix guitars with sitars for ‘ We Will Be Your Guns ’ and encourage residents of Death Row , Tennessee to join in with them on the title track . |
| 2 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 3 | This time they went about it correctly , which is to say incorrectly . |
| 4 | This time they deserved it . |
| 5 | This time they hope they really are going up , where they belong . |
| 6 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 7 | It was enough to get the shop moving and this time they offered Lawrence a replacement — but of an inferior model . |
| 8 | This time they centred around the inability , on my part , to learn and remember two-and-a-half hours ' solo dialogue , to look remotely like the woman I was playing , and to overcome the prejudices of the millions of Joyce-worshippers who were all sitting out there sticking pins in little waxwork Lipman dolls . |
| 9 | So this time they get a good start , and they 're off . |
| 10 | This time they got their desire . |
| 11 | The next day they tried again but this time they added ten per cent of heavy water to the liquid , thereby increasing the amount of deuterium — the fusion fuel . |
| 12 | This time they added 70 , played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions , and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls . |
| 13 | While in the past , US officials blocked investigations into Gen Noriega 's drug links ; this time they let justice take its course . |
| 14 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 15 | This time they demanded : That from the first of January 1910 , there shall be no further introduction of females into our trade in Edinburgh , nor any importation of female compositors from other centres , and that in future , machine composition be solely undertaken by male union labour . " |
| 16 | This time they told us that we were to stop hunting musk and tār . |
| 17 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 18 | But at least , they assured one another , this time they knew it would n't be some old alcoholic who would ‘ waste ’ all of their time in the Coronary Care Unit . |
| 19 | Around this time they sent away some samples from the metal cathodes for examination . |
| 20 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 21 | This time they managed to empty the room without any mishaps and prepared it for Endill 's work . |
| 22 | This time they produced over 40 eggs . |
| 23 | At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents . |
| 24 | Pain stabbed into their ears , and this time they kept their hands there until the secondary cracking of thunder had come and gone . |
| 25 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 26 | This time they formed working-groups with the Israelis to discuss land and water , human rights and self-government . |
| 27 | By 0900hrs the Japanese were back to raid other specified targets , this time they met some opposition in the air , several American fighters were now airborne but the pilots had no combat experience so the Japanese had the advantage . |
| 28 | This time they took up Bright 's original suggestion and spliced the cable in mid-ocean on July 29 1858 . |
| 29 | But this time they suffered their heaviest casualties since the battle began . |
| 30 | But after tonight 's slaughtering of ‘ Bill Is Dead ’ and ‘ Popcorn Double Feature ’ , even repeated mumblings of the old mantra that ‘ Mark Smith is The Fall ’ are unable to erase the feeling that perhaps this time they 've got it wrong . |