Example sentences of "[coord] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe after you overcome the awkwardness of the first , or the second time , it 's really very easy . |
2 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
3 | not for the first , or the last time to come — |
4 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
5 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
6 | Not that time , nor the next time they went ; nor the next , nor the next … |
7 | The next time it rang he was so absorbed in the problem of getting the pistol to work that he did not notice it ; nor the next time either . |
8 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
9 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
10 | It was the first personal bequest she had ever received , and the first time in years that she had cried . |
11 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
12 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
13 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
14 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
15 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
16 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
17 | It will be Llanelli 's 104th cup tie , prop Lawrence Delaney 's 58th appearance in cup rugby — and the first time St Albans have reached this stage of the event . |
18 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
19 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |
20 | He thought of Claire Fraser , and the first time they had met , at Brandon Manor in the heart of the Cotswolds . |
21 | And the first time she met Luke she stepped up and kissed him passionately on the lips . |
22 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
23 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
24 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
25 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
26 | and the first time by |
27 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
28 | ‘ And the first time I do it I hurt you . |
29 | ‘ And the first time the door to the viewing room was locked in some way ? ’ |
30 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |