Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 5 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 7 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 9 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 10 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 11 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 12 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 13 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 14 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 15 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 16 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 17 | The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same . |
| 18 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 19 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 20 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 21 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 22 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 23 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 24 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 25 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 27 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 28 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 29 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 30 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |