Example sentences of "there [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
| 2 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 3 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 4 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 5 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 6 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 7 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 10 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 12 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 13 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 14 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 15 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 16 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 17 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 18 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 19 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 20 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 21 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 22 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 23 | So the men had to be there at the right time you had t ? |
| 24 | He seemed to be there at the right time . ’ |
| 25 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 26 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 27 | At first , I had no sense of being there , or rather , I was there and not there at the same time , a sort of annihilation of the ego . |
| 28 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 29 | Erm so witnesses er ca n't be beneficiaries and they must be there at the same time . |
| 30 | Erm , I do n't think it 'll ever take off actu , actually , because er you 've got all the traffic all there already and if you 've got say , say you have got Hibs and Hearts you got all the traffic going out there at the same time and it 's gon na be chock-a-block ! |