Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 2 | There is n't anyone left in this club who reads anything more demanding than the Racing Times or tits and bums magazines . |
| 3 | Charles sat among Charity 's glossy acquaintances , the only uniform in the whole peculiar set of imbibers , perhaps not so peculiar as the last time he 'd dropped in when the Aleister Crowley entourage gave sinister overtones to the entire pub , the ‘ Black Magician ’ himself in his wide black hat sat surrounded by his followers in equally curious clothes . |
| 4 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 5 | If we avoid facing up to it we then make it more likely that the next time the situation , or a similar one , is encountered we will avoid it again . |
| 6 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 7 | This is most likely as frightening as the first time you prayed out loud . |
| 8 | Magwitch seemed quieter and more likeable than the last time I had seen him . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , he 's trying to make himself look useful so the next time he wants his own name in the paper I 'll remember and do his bidding . |
| 10 | It will refuse to stand still because the last time we got off it was punished ! |
| 11 | It was a carbon-copy deed , just as terrible as the first time . |
| 12 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 13 | But the second time , they tell me , is n't as good as the first time when you go . |
| 14 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 15 | You can extend this time if necessary to have it happen at a suitably dramatic moment ; the staging of the event is more important than the exact time . |
| 16 | In order to give a good effect a fairly wide range of delay times are required , and apparently it is important that the longer times are not exact multiples of the shortest time . |
| 17 | He looked anxious , more white-faced and sober than the last time Athelstan had seen him . |
| 18 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 19 | The net effect is that , each time , the perihelion is a little further round than the last time — or , to put it another way , the perihelion advances . |
| 20 | It was less acrimonious than the first time , but much more painful . |
| 21 | It was nice but the next time you do it can you not put such and such in it . |
| 22 | It was nice but the next time you do it can you not put such and such in it . |
| 23 | This , though it is everywhere as various and as changeable as the biographical time which Bakhtin finds in classical Greek literature , can nevertheless still be identified as a distinctive and possibly definitive generic shift . |
| 24 | For instance , it is not realistic to expect that trains will run regularly at fixed intervals throughout the day and night , nor is it true that the mean time between vehicles is the same over a 24-hour period . |
| 25 | Once again she suffered badly from morning-sickness although it was n't as bad as the first time . |