Example sentences of "and the [adj] time he " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye .
4 And the gun-room and the first time he went in there with Adam .
5 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 .
6 He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to .
7 The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully .
8 he assaulted me a f few times and the last time he did it I involved the police and he was in court last Thursday and he was found guilty of assault .
9 and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems
10 At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear .
11 Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and .
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