Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 3 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 5 | for about the fifth time |
| 6 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 7 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 8 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 9 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 10 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 11 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 12 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 13 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
| 14 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 15 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |
| 16 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
| 17 | It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ . |
| 18 | It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area . |
| 19 | In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers . |
| 20 | It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time . |
| 21 | It 's certainly an anomaly that two players dealt with around the same time end up serving their bans well apart . |
| 22 | The earliest known whales date from about the same time , but in this case the situation is slightly more complicated , in that these early whales were very similar to modern ones , and could be big — up to 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 23 | From about the same time onwards , Catholic books and pious objects began to be used more sparingly — or at least more discreetly — in most parts of the country . |
| 24 | in at the same time , yeah . |
| 25 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 26 | A report from around the same time which reached the London bureau of the Neu Beginnen organization , based on conversations with an elderly , formerly active member of the SPD , living in a central German city , painted a similar picture of opinion . |
| 27 | It was the form twos , the only thing that I , that they had to , they had to look forward to in the whole time they were there . |
| 28 | What I fear is that A-levels will be diluted without at the same time lengthening degree courses , particularly mathematical ones , to maintain standards . |
| 29 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 30 | NOVEL-READING OF THIS SORT IS ESPECIALLY INJURIOUS TO THE GROWTH OF THE IMAGINATION , THE JUDGEMENT , AND THE MORALS , ESPECIALLY TO THE LATTER , BECAUSE IT EXCITES MERE FEELINGS WITHOUT AT THE SAME TIME MINISTERING AN IMPULSE TO ACTION . |