Example sentences of "[num ord] time as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
2 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
3 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
4 | has made an excellent start to the year and I shall have more to say about them next time as I plan to visit Faverolles in August to see the additional breakfast cereal production capacity which will be coming on stream this autumn . |
5 | I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I did n't have . |
6 | Well I think you did very well much better than last time as it goes |
7 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
8 | Andrevitch surveyed the corridor for the last time as he backed in . |
9 | In 1969 he went back , one last time as he thought , to play James Bond in Diamonds are Forever . |
10 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
11 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |