Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Then his warm , naked body was against hers beneath the covers and this time everything was magically different .
2 She kept getting bones in her mouth and each time she took one out O'Hara appeared to be looking in her direction .
3 Plus I lost one stone in weight and this time I have not put the weight back on again .
4 That was the Mansell prediction and this time his crystal ball seems to be tuned in … with six grand prix wins … the world crown should be his …
5 Everyone laughed and clapped and then Oliver used a whole heap of long words and each time he used one we all whooped .
6 A couple of weeks later we had an indoor match in Budapest against Hungary and this time I won , 21.3 to Ade 's 21.6 , with some top Hungarians trailing behind .
7 Be prepared to train twice as hard on your weaker side and each time you feel fed-up through lack of progress , switch to your stronger side to give yourself a boost .
8 With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one .
9 That was why , apart from a mild hope that this time his wretched daughter would get herself killed , he did not devote his considerable powers to learning more about the three travellers galloping desperately out of his realm .
10 We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us .
11 If I was to pop my clogs at work or any time you 'd get fifty five thousand eight hundred eighty pounds .
12 I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is !
13 Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner .
14 Twice the doctor had tried to push his arm inside her to turn the child and each time he had failed .
15 August 1992 sees Tim setting off on a journey much nearer home and this time he 's inviting the wine-loving gourmets of Britain to join him .
16 It was still the strongest weapon in my armoury but this time I added two pounds of black treacle to the mixture .
17 She was summoned down in exactly fifteen minutes and this time she was more prepared .
18 I reached over and ruffled his hair and this time he did n't pull away .
19 I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going
20 During the next year Sally fell in and out of love a half dozen times and each time it proved to be just as disastrous .
21 Ford came to Swansea 's rescue by the blocking the effort but the ball again went out to Pugh and this time his cross was met by Barrow who headed wide .
22 Meanwhile Agnew lifts it in and there is another offside decision and this time it 's gone in Forest 's favour .
23 She hardly ever stopped thinking about Alain Lemarchand and each time he came into her mind this guilt came too .
24 In 1987 the Lib Dems came second to the Conservatives in two thirds of the seats and this time they look like the main challengers .
25 It was the second Cultural Revolution but this time it came from the students and the workers and this time it was nonviolent , peaceful , gentle .
26 Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful .
27 four or five times as I watch the skua tries and each time it fails .
28 Although his curtains were drawn , moonlight flooded his room and each time he awoke from an uneasy sleep he thought that it was morning .
29 Normally we go to Cavendish Square but this time it had been cordoned off .
30 If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished .
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