Example sentences of "in the [noun] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard . |
| 2 | ABOVE Another scene in the Seychelles this time offering us tranquillity for very different reasons ; the rocks and the overshadowing branches indicate to us that here we can enjoy good observation of our surrounds without ourselves being observed . |
| 3 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 4 | Was there anything different in the dream this time ? |
| 5 | Just 2 mallard ducks ; an adult male and female were caught in the decoy this time . |
| 6 | There was no gentleness in the caress this time , no tenderness in the way he raked his lips over hers , no subtlety intended when he thrust his tongue deep into her mouth , ignoring the muted whimpers of protest that died in her throat . |
| 7 | Or , as it was earlier in the year this time , there may not have been the necessity since the kits would have been smaller . |
| 8 | He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time . |
| 9 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 10 | " Do it in the provinces this time , " they urge . |