Example sentences of "only [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's give it the same conditions , only this time we use that as the bait . ’ |
| 2 | Same plan , only this time we all retreated back some thirty feet so that the wily rabbits would n't pick up our scent , to give the bird a chance . |
| 3 | ‘ Only this time we 'll dance according to the music . ’ |
| 4 | They threatened me once more , only this time they sounded much more serious . |
| 5 | In common with fig 4 this relies on fast alternate picked double stops , only this time they are at a faster tempo , phrased in sixteenths and have a moving line added as a third ( lower ) part . |
| 6 | Only this time they 're armed not just with a new album but new producers , new horizons , a new attitude and apparently a new code of conduct in interviews . |
| 7 | ‘ Sphereality ’ was recorded live in concert and finds Crawlspace hanging on to the shreds of their psychedelic shape-shifting strum ( last featured on the 45 they made with Mooseheart Faith ) , only this time they are even more adventurous and what unravels goes far beyond any trip/trance acid groove . |
| 8 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 9 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 10 | Only this time it 's curtains . |
| 11 | Where the Early Church had a vision of community and mission as its sustaining theology , a hierarchical Church has an equally well-organized vision , only this time it is a vision of separation . |
| 12 | Only this time it said , with the old rasp , ‘ I 'll have four sugars . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he said again , only this time it was tinged with wariness . |
| 14 | Only this time it covered half his back . ’ |
| 15 | Yet another multipart game , only this time it manages to be just a little more feeble than the others . |
| 16 | The man with the concertina , whom Ruth had noticed on the day they sailed from Liverpool , struck up a tune ; only this time it was not a dance , but a hymn of thanksgiving and praise , in which everyone joined . |
| 17 | Only this time it was n't for him , but for Billie . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the sort of silly idea I get all the time , ’ observed Lydia , ‘ only this time it was you who got it . ’ |
| 19 | Only this time it was empty . |
| 20 | Only this time it really was n't . |
| 21 | ‘ Only this time it was a mistake . |
| 22 | Only this time it is the other way round . |
| 23 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 24 | It was just like before , back at the jetty , only this time it was a hundred times worse . |
| 25 | May 24 opened in similar fashion to the previous day , only this time it was Fearless dodging the bombs . |
| 26 | ‘ Only this time I 'll take it wie me when I go out . ’ |
| 27 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 28 | Once again , I lived in the desert , only this time I was sent away , and could never return . |
| 29 | Only this time I 'm the winner , ’ Lori gloated . |
| 30 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |