Example sentences of "the [adj] time [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas . |
| 2 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 3 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 4 | For the second time in his life the icy fingers of death pierced his innermost self . |
| 5 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 6 | For the second time in his military career Leslie now encountered a piece of equipment to which an unattractive female name and personality was attributed . |
| 7 | My father said , for the second time in his life , that it could not all happen again . |
| 8 | SMOOTH TV frontman Frank Bough lost his cool yesterday after being named in kinky sex allegations splashed across a Sunday newspaper — for the second time in his career . |
| 9 | Derbyshire opener Barnett carried his bat for the second time in his career with 108 in 227 minutes against Glamorgan at Derby — over half the final total in a 191-defeat . |
| 10 | Derbyshire opener Barnett carried his bat for the second time in his career with 108 in 227 minutes against Glamorgan at Derby — over half the final total in a 191-defeat . |
| 11 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 12 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 13 | PAUL ELLIOTT , Chelsea centre-back , has injured cruciate knee ligaments for the second time in his career . |
| 14 | The 17-year-old Cuemasters youngster from Wishaw has now reached the last 16 of a ranking tournament for only the second time in his fledgling career . |
| 15 | Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming . |
| 16 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 17 | In 1991 , he finished number one in the Order of Merit for the sixth time in his career . |
| 18 | But in a house in the heart of the Woodfield Estate there was no whistling as a man searched the streets for the fourth time for his child , then finally , belatedly , picked up a telephone and rang the police . |
| 19 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |
| 20 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 21 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 22 | Rubberneck , for the first time of his life ( he no longer wished to be a part , not when people fought as animals ) , felt close to God . |
| 23 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 24 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 25 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 26 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 28 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
| 29 | Talking for the first time about his ordeal , Brian says : ‘ They left me in no doubt I was a leading suspect . |
| 30 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |