Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 3 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 4 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 5 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 6 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 7 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 8 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 9 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 10 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 11 | Major success for caddie Andy Prodger and Open champion Nick Faldo came the second time around . |
| 12 | Briefly , the image of Lexandro 's own two indulged foolish siblings , Andria and Phoeba , flitted through his consciousness for what seemed the first time in years . |
| 13 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 14 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , for goodness ’ sake ! ’ he squeaked the third time it happened . |
| 16 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 17 | If you put the two together erm you i it becomes understandable why they , they adopted these policies to the south , even though sort of from what happened the first time particularly in a retrospective way , the expectation would be you would , this would be the are where you would go for land reform straight away . |
| 18 | Look what happened the last time Europe armed , millions dead on both sides . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what happened the last time , I seem to remember . |
| 20 | Let's remind him what happened the last time the UK stood alone , in 1940 . |
| 21 | That 's why I yelled the second time . |
| 22 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 23 | No one likes to be outsmarted , and the man who loses out once will be that much more aggressive and determined the next time , although others may react by refusing to deal with those that they do n't know and trust . |
| 24 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 25 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 26 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 27 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
| 28 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 29 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 30 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |