Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 2 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 3 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 4 | Patients were still taking omeprazole when they had the tests done for a second time . |
| 5 | It was like some ghoulish rerun of Sunday afternoon , as if the same sequence in a film was being shot for a second time under a different director . |
| 6 | The roadway is closed to traffic by a turnpike , then , underneath a kind of Bridge of Sighs connecting the main block with the buildings attached to the Arch , it is closed again by a set of ornamental gates — and then closed for a third time by another turnpike . |
| 7 | The horn was sounded for a third time , a single blast , long and mournful . |
| 8 | The video is then played through a second time without the sound . |
| 9 | The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time . |
| 10 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 11 | He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery . |
| 12 | On his return in 680 he was deprived of his relics by Iurminburg , imprisoned for nine months by Ecgfrith , and then expelled for a second time from the kingdom . |
| 13 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 14 | He had maintained that position when asked for a third time after being put into an ambulance . |
| 15 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the lesbian and gay rights campaign , said now the idea of a common age of consent had been supported for a fourth time , he hope that the leadership would finally accept the commitment and ensure it went into the manifesto . |
| 16 | It was in her honour that he , too , had shaved for a second time and puffed Carole 's deodorant over his private parts . |
| 17 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 18 | By the time that Orchard made his last will in January 1504 he had married for a second time . |
| 19 | Kenneth , last seen nineteen eighty two , lived in the Sleaford area , a retired senior nursing officer at Hospital Holbeach , er m may have married for a second time , Kenneth he 's got a son Ian Mark . |