Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] this time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time .
2 We 've got ta pay for the coach this time have n't we , or something ?
3 We got ta pay for the coach this time though have n't we ?
4 For there was no doubt about her success that night , and for the encore this time , she came on alone .
5 They were going to cut bamboo stems from the thicket at the end of the path , not for the garden this time but for themselves .
6 However , his princes were not enthusiastic about the project this time and his army was weak , so he was forced to hire roaming mercenaries .
7 I suspect the enemy was really after the railway this time .
8 He had made sure of the Jew this time , and the whore .
9 There was no question of the winner this time .
10 He said : ‘ This is the best squad we 've had since we re-formed the club a year ago , and we are hopeful of the title this time .
11 Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either .
12 There was a longer silence from the other end of the phone this time .
13 These grievances and demands remained and although they did not drive the students out onto the streets of the capital this time to demonstrate , it was clear that they certainly could at some time in the near future .
14 The tenth defeat of the season arrived and with it a place at the bottom of the table this time 2–1 at home to Peterborough .
15 He would draw the money out of the bank this time .
16 ‘ It means people can actually get hold of the record this time around .
17 ‘ It means people can actually get hold of the record this time around .
18 A gentleman near the front this time at seventeen pound .
19 I do n't think there 's anything behind the question this time but nostalgia .
20 He and the others repeated all the old objections to plastic as a material , heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and dangerous with the emphasis this time on the middle two rather than the last .
21 Oh there are no , you know with the gaff this time , a lot of work like during the week and that and we 've tightened up quite a bit and tried to you know , get ourselves organised .
22 But something obviously went wrong with the scenario this time around because ‘ Blues Soul ’ is , whisper it not , the CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR .
23 After Edward 's triumph at Boroughbridge in 1322 he once again sought to levy one man from each vill for service in Scotland , with the vill this time paying the wages for forty days .
24 So you go are you going now from your sixth form into the college this time ?
25 You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces .
26 ‘ Run that round the block again , Rog , and see if you can sneak it by under the limbo-line this time . ’
27 It was a wild , dangerous wind , blowing from the south this time .
28 The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer .
29 One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard .
30 And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
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