Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft muslin cloth for the odd time I do n't want the work to get too hot . |
| 2 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 3 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 4 | She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel . |
| 5 | For the first time I was free of obligation or responsibility . |
| 6 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 7 | For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise . |
| 8 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 9 | And for the first time I began to think of rewriting Peter Pan in a fresh and different way . |
| 10 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 11 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 12 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 13 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 14 | For the first time I saw not a vague pink blob but an exquisite , fragile , jewel-like object . |
| 15 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
| 16 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 17 | For the first time I had to tell my story logically , and the effort which this entailed , under the critical questioning of the Inspector , dispelled some of the depression which I felt . |
| 18 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |
| 19 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 20 | For the first time I was in touch with my deepest emotions . |
| 21 | For the first time I noticed the brothers ' yarmulkes in the somewhat subdued light of the boardroom , plain black skullcaps blending in with the pale glow of the room . |
| 22 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
| 23 | For the first time I really felt myself become part of a tribal circle , accepted as an elder simply by being a foreigner . |
| 24 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 25 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 26 | For the first time I notice the great hairy leaves have five fingers . |
| 27 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 28 | Then he went on — ‘ Here for the first time I talked about our country with a white Rhodesian . |
| 29 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
| 30 | ‘ For the first time I refused to do as I was told . |