Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 3 | Mounting economic problems in Japan and Germany , and the London property crisis , could mean that economic revival will be long deferred ; a party whose record made the Financial Times refuse to back it is going to have its work cut out to keep in control . |
| 4 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 5 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 6 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 7 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 8 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 9 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’ |
| 12 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 13 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All the scores for the trials which involved the same time delay were totalled up . |
| 18 | I simply used the extra time to polish them a little . ’ |
| 19 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 20 | First , he changed the dramatic time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 23 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 24 | He complained about the cart , the reins , the horse , the road , the sky , his watch ( which never told the right time ) and his clothing . |
| 25 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 26 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 27 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 29 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 30 | The petrochemical industry 's current and immediate future state is a ‘ classic example of the good , the bad and the ugly ’ , Doug Campbell , deputy chief executive of BP Chemicals , told the Financial Times petrochemicals conference in London recently . |