Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 2 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 3 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 4 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 5 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 6 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 7 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 8 | DAVID PLATT , the Juventus midfielder , will captain England for the first time in the World Cup clash with San Marino at Wembley tonight . |
| 9 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 10 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | Richard Hannon fields two of the nine runners in the ‘ Heinz 57 ’ Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown and his Son Pardo can bring the prize back to England for the eighth time in nine years . |
| 12 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 13 | Hence in late nineteenth-century France the aged were already a more prominent group , almost twice the proportion in England at the same time : indeed , there were proportionally somewhat fewer old in booming Victorian England than in 1700 . |