Example sentences of "[that] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 2 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 3 | Paul remembers that the awful thing is that each time he never even felt carsick until after Ed threw up . |
| 4 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 5 | I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is ! |
| 6 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 7 | The following evening ( that was three expensive dinners in a row , which made a contrast to Georg 's grudging once a month treat at the cinema ) she had insisted that this time they talk about him . |
| 8 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 9 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |
| 10 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |
| 11 | Debbie was determined that this time she would fight it off . |
| 12 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 13 | I think she half meant it , though what she really felt was that this time she was going to wait . |
| 14 | Not daring to tremble , she saw the point of his sword coming towards her heart , and , sure that this time she would die , closed her eyes . |
| 15 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 16 | But the negotiators , led by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 's Jalal Talabani and including the nephew of Masoud Barzani , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party , claimed that this time it could all be different . |
| 17 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 18 | There was of course the complicating factor that this time it was ‘ Mary ’ , not ‘ David ’ . |
| 19 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 20 | We have it from on high , however , that this time it will . |
| 21 | I have a feeling that this time it will be all right for her . |
| 22 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 23 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |
| 24 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 26 | Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky . |
| 27 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 28 | The difference is that this time I want you to play each third as a two-note chord , or ‘ diad ’ . |
| 29 | I think that this time I decided meself that I was gon na come off when I got paid . |
| 30 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |