Example sentences of "a third time " in BNC.

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1 They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time .
2 Desperate now , I pulled a third time , and a third time the boots slipped .
3 Desperate now , I pulled a third time , and a third time the boots slipped .
4 We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season .
5 Mr Papandreou , aged 70 , is under increasing pressure to reach a compromise solution with his political opponents as Greek voters have no desire to go to the polls again for a third time in less than six months .
6 Overnight , government ownership has become the peoples ' ownership but soon that will change a third time to shareholder ownership .
7 He could n't think of anything else to say , so he made as if to kiss her a third time .
8 For a third time it starts with a single family , indeed , as in the Garden , with a single couple , Abraham and Sarah .
9 He began a third time with Abraham and the miracle of his son Isaac .
10 Noah 's family so quickly spoiled the new creation that God then made , and after Babel God began a third time with the calling of Abraham .
11 But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time .
12 And then a third time .
13 Susan giggled a third time .
14 If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’
15 He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night .
16 These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time .
17 Howard waved his hand a third time before speaking his mind .
18 Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One .
19 He carried out a child , then went back and brought out another , and a third time carried a woman to safety .
20 A third time he disappeared .
21 Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house .
22 After this committee , the Bill returns to the House to be read a third time , after which it is transmitted to the other House and , if successful there , submitted for the Royal Assent .
23 Phoning a third time to give details of the re-arranged flight , nobody seemed to want of know .
24 In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful .
25 Sporting Sir John married for a third time but the new Lady Pryce refused to play second — or , perhaps , third — fiddle and insisted that the embalmed bodies in the moribund harem be removed .
26 After getting some oxygen , he then went back in for a third time .
27 But they did n't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time .
28 As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure .
29 Gonzalez-Palacios also introduces the latest issue of the Antologia delle Belle Arti , which he edits , concentrating for a third time on the decorative arts during the Neo-classical period .
30 When the phone rings a third time answer it .
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