Example sentences of "the [num ord] time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 2 | Being a violently-educated eighteen-year-old , I was familiar with Marx 's elaboration of Hegel : history repeats itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce . |
| 3 | ( And does history repeat itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce ? |
| 4 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 5 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 6 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 7 | Bakalov said Huron version 1.18 , expected in Q2 1993 , will support Motif for the first time as well as the RS/6000 , improved buffers support for larger numbers of terminals , Oracle server ( Unix ) and DB server(MVS) . |
| 8 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 9 | Being a violently-educated eighteen-year-old , I was familiar with Marx 's elaboration of Hegel : history repeats itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce . |
| 10 | ( And does history repeat itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce ? |
| 11 | To determine whether proliferative patterns in flat rectal mucosal samples can predict the recurrence of adenomatous colorectal polyps , after polypectomy , rectal mucosal specimens removed from the lesions obtained at endoscopy from 55 patients diagnosed for the first time as having adenomatous colorectal polyps . |
| 12 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 13 | Ace goal-kicker Frano Botica will be at scrum-half for the first time as Martin Crompton fills in for Dermott at hooker . |
| 14 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 15 | Andrevitch surveyed the corridor for the last time as he backed in . |
| 16 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
| 17 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |