Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 2 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 3 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 4 | Her drenched hair stranded her face , her pale lilac dress clung to her body , her eyelashes divided like a starfish as he pulled her out a second time . |
| 5 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 6 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 7 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 8 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 9 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 10 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |
| 12 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 13 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |