Example sentences of "from the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men , returned from the second time , stood waiting . |
| 2 | Janet Bond , 42 , hospital employee ( left ) : ‘ I remember all this from the first time round ! |
| 3 | From the first time she was asked to canter a figure-of-eight she knew that one always cantered a figure-of-eight ; and so when she was asked to trot one instead , she became increasingly anxious , excited , irrational , and disobedient . |
| 4 | In 1280 , for example , ‘ the metes and bounds of the New Forest from the first time that it was afforested ’ were said to extend from the Test westwards to the Avon , and from the Solent northwards to the Wiltshire county boundary . |
| 5 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 6 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |
| 7 | This is far from the first time that the Fnac has made a widely publicised intervention claiming that discounting favours the interests of the consumer . |
| 8 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 9 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 11 | The new bill , signed into law by Bush on Nov. 17 , raised the minimum wage from the first time since 1981 . |
| 12 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 13 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 14 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 15 | In the captain 's room , hardly cold from the last time , he said , ‘ Now . |
| 16 | The Youngest Son waited to greet us , and what a contrast from the last time I saw him . |
| 17 | ‘ They already know about this guy from the last time . |
| 18 | In fact James Morris looked very different from the last time he had seen him , two years previously . |
| 19 | It 's all a far cry from the last time they were at Heathrow — that was in July when they returned to Russia after a three-month holiday in Worcestershire . |
| 20 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 21 | He look different from the last time me and him were mates cos he 's got older . |