Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 2 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 3 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 4 | Probably applied the same time I did . |
| 5 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 6 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 7 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 8 | . Said the first time she came round she did n't look at it , and then , after that she looked really I hope she does n't fall . |
| 9 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 10 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 11 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 12 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 13 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 15 | Abbreviations , symbols , units and greek letters should be identified the first time they are used . |
| 16 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 17 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 18 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 19 | When neighbours who entertained him in Knightsbridge spent a rare weekend at Hatherley they were surprised at the switch from newspaper owner to farmer , a switch so thorough that the paper was not mentioned the whole time they were there . |
| 20 | The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach . |
| 21 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |