Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 2 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 3 | He did so by wandering the streets , and when for the second time he passed the food office where she worked , he knew what he was going to do . |
| 4 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 5 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 6 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 7 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 8 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 9 | No music and the bar 's only open for the minimum time he can get away with . |
| 10 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 11 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 12 | For the first time he told himself that he was fully at home in his work . |
| 13 | For the first time he met , peeping above the surface , the force of a prejudice which had unrelenting ferocity . |
| 14 | For the first time he noticed the washing machine , a big gleaming automatic affair , and the only object in that kitchen that was not stained or chipped or coated with clotted food drips . |
| 15 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 16 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 17 | For the first time he was proud of them . |
| 18 | For the first time he has the respect of all sections of his party . |
| 19 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 20 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 21 | For the first time he wavered in his determination to get rid of her . |
| 22 | For the first time he smiled as he took a cigar from his case , laid it on the desk . |
| 23 | For the first time he stopped grinning , and , resting his elbows on his knees and his head on his hands , began to shake his head from side to side . |
| 24 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
| 25 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 26 | For the first time he felt awkward with this tall girl who was young enough to be his daughter , and he wished he had warned Mrs Deacon what to expect . |
| 27 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 28 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 29 | For the first time he has revealed that his controversial substitution in the European Championship finals came after a series of confrontations . |
| 30 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |