Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 4 | for about the fifth time |
| 5 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 6 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 7 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 8 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 9 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 10 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 11 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |
| 12 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 13 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |