Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors . |
| 2 | Work till dinner time or something then , then we 're going down , well I 'll go in my own bloody car the next time ! |
| 3 | Just take a careful look the next time you are out shopping ; how many people look happy ? |
| 4 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 5 | Wilson and I had n't had a proper meal the whole time and now my stomach was beginning to remind me there were other things in life besides Scotch and bourbon . |
| 6 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 7 | I felt tremendous guilt the whole time , I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me . |
| 8 | That means I can sail happily upwind or downwind in perfect control the whole time . |
| 9 | Also on Benn 's hit-list is old foe Iran Barkley , beaten in one round by the Dark Destroyer the last time they met . |
| 10 | The race incorporates the Welsh championships , and among the 1,600 lining up will be Olympic marathon man Steve Brace , who won the national title the last time the championships were held in Llandudno . |
| 11 | If the phial is not rinsed properly after testing , remnants of the reagent or tablet may give a false reading the next time the test kit is used . |
| 12 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 13 | He did n't say anything of great consequence the last time I left him . |
| 14 | ‘ Dustin made extraordinary sense the first time he ever read the script . |
| 15 | PRINCESS Anne began married life the second time around as she means to go on — by giving the orders . |
| 16 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 17 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 18 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 19 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 20 | It is when this mass of dancers divides and moves to the sides that the open space available for dancing is exposed fur the first time . |
| 21 | Do n't miss any more because it 's going to be difficult fitting the extra time aft |
| 22 | The chances are that Oxford WILL have to roll out the red carpet the next time Mr Clinton comes to town . |
| 23 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 24 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 25 | More usually , this is done by attaching lights to the wrists or to other parts of the body , if the light is flashing at a known frequency the relative time of particular positions as well as the sequence can be measured . |