Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , if you , if you have a little skill and a little experience , you know how to put a story particularly with some visual appeal as opposed to just sound appeal , then there is , if you 're in the right place at the right time you can get in . |
| 2 | And after raising the board and finding six washleather bags of sovereigns she had really believed him , and for only the second time she could remember in her life , she had cried . |
| 3 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 4 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 5 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 6 | At the present time it can be inoculated into laboratory animals , in which it will multiply , and will produce an illness similar to the human disease in the higher apes . |
| 7 | The longer you stave that off , the less time you will spend building fatigue toxins . |
| 8 | Graham Ward , the Price Waterhouse partner on the Prudential audit and vice-chairman of the Institute 's Auditing Committee , says : ‘ The more efficient a company 's accounting function might be , the less time it should take to do the audit . ’ |
| 9 | When you think you 're right that is the very time it 'll fly back in your teeth . |
| 10 | The opportunist housebreaker will not shirk from breaking a window , of course , but the more levels of protection you create , the more time it will take him — which is a risk he may not wish to take . |
| 11 | The more unnecessary journeys you can cut out , the more time you can save . |
| 12 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 13 | For the first time they will know what the fans think . ’ |
| 14 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 15 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 16 | For the first time we can differentiate the local atomic order around sodium from that surrounding calcium and from the atomic environment of silicon . |
| 17 | For the first time we can measure the true amount of perishable food we throw away and establish which lines are most often wasted because their sell-by-date has passed . |
| 18 | ‘ And that was the first time ye 'd ever set eyes on him ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As you will appreciate , we completed fully the recent form you sent us , which was the first time I can remember seeing one of this kind . |
| 21 | Said : ‘ It 's the first time I can remember there being a vote in favour of nuclear power . |
| 22 | For the first time I can imagine some dim trail of obsession , some weird recursive delusion , leading out of this little room , down the spiral stairs , and out to some wildly mischosen destination … |
| 23 | It was the first time I 'd put it to myself like that . |
| 24 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 25 | When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar . |
| 26 | For the first time you can have electronic anti-lock brakes across the whole range , and on certain models you can specify refinements such as power steering , air conditioning and a CD player . |
| 27 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | For the first time she could smell the dankness and the odour of rotting seaweed . |
| 29 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 30 | It was the first time she 'd come here in seven years , and this deserted expanse of dunes on the northern point of the estuary seemed bigger than she remembered , and more desolate . |