Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box .
2 Other peaks came during the months following the prohibited times of Advent and Lent .
3 Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions .
4 Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ?
5 All of us were checking new bands out the whole time .
6 I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end .
7 If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes .
8 To prepare themselves for this , Neil Miller , the dealing director , told dealers to read a quality newspaper preferably the Financial Times , but the Daily Mail at a pinch .
9 and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm
10 And bloody things here the whole time , these cockles were everywhere they were we liked them , the boys did , aye .
11 In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed .
12 Money out the same time .
13 On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened .
14 since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work .
15 Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income .
16 LAPPING IT UP : Head for one of five spectacular Holiday Worlds where the good times never stop
17 Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory .
18 The motor will therefore drive the output shaft to a position where the monostable time period exactly matches that of the input pulse width .
19 For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win .
20 Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time .
21 Consequently , you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily .
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