Example sentences of "the [noun] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
2 | Karen Bage and Eileen Boynes have been named sales negotiators of the month for Shepherd Homes in the North-East the second time in a year the team at the Beckfields Walk development at Ingleby Barwick , near Thornaby , has won the award . |
3 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
4 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
5 | Look less far than the mountains the next time you wish your questions answered . |
6 | If , therefore , the pointer reads " here " and we blink our eyes and look at it again we shall certainly find the pointer the second time still stolidly sitting at the mark " here " . |
7 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
8 | I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time . |
9 | The take-over the first time a South African bank has bought a British bank values Ansbacher at £57.8m . |
10 | The East Anglian side were also the culprits the last time Atkinson hit an all-time low , when Ipswich beat his West Brom side in the 1978 FA Cup semi-finals . |
11 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
12 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
13 | Kimber had previously done some building work there , and had promised to bring the dancers the next time the side was out . |
14 | Keep listening until you are sure that you will recognise the sounds the next time you hear them , then withdraw the spade and push it back into the ground some feet away . |
15 | He had been in the boot the first time , and masked on the floor of the back seat the second . |
16 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
17 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
18 | of young smokers had been refused cigarettes by the supplier the last time they sought to buy them but that , in 1990 , the figure had risen to 15 per cent . |
19 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
20 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
21 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
22 | ‘ I set your name up on the account the first time we met . |
23 | Now , I says I 'll get the police the next time ! |
24 | Quite clearly you ca n't roll the dice the first time you win . |
25 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
26 | Twice remove from the freezer before the ice is solid and beat vigorously , folding all but 2 tbsps of the praline mixture into the ice-cream the second time . |
27 | The man who 's watching him followed him as near as possible to the mountain the first time but he could n't go any further without being seen — the same problem we had with Scano 's boy yesterday . |