Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ring up Richard , and Richard says the only time I can see you is seven o'clock Tuesday night , and I 've got no appointment . |
| 2 | Major success for caddie Andy Prodger and Open champion Nick Faldo came the second time around . |
| 3 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 4 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 5 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 6 | What would Mr Seeders do the next time he came in ? |
| 7 | How did Doctor Jekyll feel the first time he became Mr Hyde ? |
| 8 | When he spoke at the exhibition , Vivien stood the whole time , keeping her eyes fixed upon his face . |
| 9 | The assault on Panama marks the second time in six years that the US has employed its military forces against a country in the hemisphere . |
| 10 | Monday marked the first time he spoke from the Oval Office , sitting at John F Kennedy 's desk , on a national holiday celebrating George Washington 's birthday . |
| 11 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 12 | Estonia left the Soviet time zone and aligned itself chronologically with Finland ; Christmas became a public holiday ; and the republican capital , Tallinn , was given its Estonian name ( with two ns rather than one ) for all-union purposes . |
| 13 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 14 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 15 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 16 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
| 17 | ALAN DAVIES believes the good times are about to start rolling again for Wales this week . |
| 18 | It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a very acrimonious meeting , mostly about why we were changing lengths : the merchandisers were saying the customers want this and the designers were fighting their case and , as it was the first collection prepared without Laura present the whole time , it was not surprising that difficulties should surface , ’ Moira explained . |
| 20 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 21 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 22 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |