Example sentences of "and the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , bearing in mind single life , does include a life of another , and the only time we can use that life for another , is the one we mentioned there with where the employer wishes to take a plan on the life of the employee . |
| 2 | Indeed , the basic model assumes that wages and prices are fixed and the only time we allowed them to rise was after the attainment of full employment . |
| 3 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 4 | They let me get on with my job and the only time I see them is to get things rubber-stamped . ’ |
| 5 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 6 | I 'm based on the moons of Jupiter from now on , and the only time I 'll come back to earth will be strictly on a day-trip basis . |
| 7 | Jayne , it seems , never spoke to Isabelle and the only time she smiled at her was when she learnt that Chris and Isabelle were splitting up . |
| 8 | You 're going to get a real whipping now , and the only time you speak is to tell us you 're ready to inform on your friends . |
| 9 | And the only time you would get a new pair was if the top part of the shoe |
| 10 | And when I say the country I do n't mean one of those villages just off the motorway full of people just like us buying Australian Chardonnay from the local wine merchant and the only time you hear an ooo-aarr accent is when you 're listening to the Archers in the bath . |
| 11 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 12 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
| 13 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 14 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
| 15 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
| 17 | He thought of Claire Fraser , and the first time they had met , at Brandon Manor in the heart of the Cotswolds . |
| 18 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
| 19 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 20 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 21 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 22 | And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam . |
| 23 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 24 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 25 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 26 | ‘ And the first time I do it I hurt you . |
| 27 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 28 | ‘ Ely , ’ I said ( that was her name and the first time I 'd ever used it ) , ‘ I want to be free . ’ |
| 29 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 30 | It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience . |