Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft muslin cloth for the odd time I do n't want the work to get too hot . |
| 2 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 3 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 4 | Although the appeals came when Russia was not yet ready to advance , for the second time she went immediately and unhesitatingly to the aid of her allies . |
| 5 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 6 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 7 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 8 | He did so by wandering the streets , and when for the second time he passed the food office where she worked , he knew what he was going to do . |
| 9 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 10 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 11 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 12 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 13 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 14 | No music and the bar 's only open for the minimum time he can get away with . |
| 15 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 16 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 17 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 18 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 19 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 20 | For the first time they were not photographed together for the cards . |
| 21 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 22 | For the first time they struck her — both letter and box — as symbols of escape . |
| 23 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 24 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 25 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 26 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 27 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 28 | For the first time they will know what the fans think . ’ |
| 29 | For the first time we are trying to preserve the historical integrity of the carvings . ’ |
| 30 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |