Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 2 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 3 | GORDON Edwards ( Bromborough ) , who never seems to lose his form with the passing of years , won the English Open Seniors Championship for the second time his first success was in 1988 . |
| 4 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 5 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 6 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 7 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 8 | For the first time her shoulders slumped and a tearful lump clogged her throat before she quickly shook it off . |
| 9 | For the first time his face became serious and severe . |
| 10 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 11 | For the first time his work appears in large format and in Cibachrome colour . |
| 12 | Its sense of familiarity marks for the first time his ease within an international world of diplomacy . |
| 13 | He followed her into the sitting room , and noticed for the first time his packed bag . |
| 14 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 15 | Darley 's suspension could prove a major blow in his quest to ride 100 winners in a season for the first time his 16 year career . |
| 16 | For the first time my life wo n't be ordered . |
| 17 | For the hundredth time her insides twisted and shivered with excitement . |
| 18 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 19 | About the same time his second son Daniel [ q.v. ] , |
| 20 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 21 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 22 | But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent |
| 23 | Beryl Smith again drew attention to the strenuous time our trainers have , called upon as they are to travel so far and having to tackle what seems to be a non-stop training programme . |
| 24 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 25 | At the present time their marriage practices are not very different from those of their neighbours though there is considerable diversity in different sections of the community . |
| 26 | At the present time your plenty will supply what they need ; so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need . |
| 27 | At the same time their insistence on otherness was found to be inseparable from a fear and disavowal of the same , or the proximate . |
| 28 | But at the same time their concern with Eastern Europe is one more reason that they do not want West Europeans to do anything that weakens NATO . |
| 29 | And at the same time their influence must be bounded by other , dominant ISAs . |
| 30 | The nobility readily supported the king 's ‘ just quarrel ’ , but at the same time their military importance was greatly enhanced , the financial relationship between the king and the nobles moved substantially in favour of the nobles , and both the profits of war and the generosity of the crown enabled them to extend and safeguard their inheritances . |