Example sentences of "the [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa had sighed and squeezed her friend 's arm , reflecting for the hundred-millionth time just what an enormous debt she owed Josey . |
| 2 | He could be in the right place at the right time when top jobs come up for grabs next summer . |
| 3 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 4 | Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round . |
| 5 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 6 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 7 | Well , we had the funniest time ever , getting the hair washed , getting it dried , getting the dress , where 's the dress . |
| 8 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 9 | But I chose the wrong time when prices were depressed and there was n't a great deal to come after all the expenses were paid . |
| 10 | ‘ NOW is the acceptable time NOW is the significant time . ’ |
| 11 | In general , regular exercise helps to lessen period pains as may vigorous exercise during the painful time especially if it mobilises the pelvic area . |
| 12 | It is the goodness of the years we have lived through , of the old time when we did this and that , when we dwelt here or there . |
| 13 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 14 | Leather corals , unlike some coelenterates , do not spend the entire time fully expanded . |
| 15 | At Keele he had edited the student Unit , with the future Time Out and City Limits editor John Fordham as deputy editor . |
| 16 | The average time away from work for a woman who leaves to raise a family is eight years , and 30 per cent of women attending the Dow-Stoker Returners courses have been away from the workplace for over fifteen years . |
| 17 | Today threatened to be a write-off as far as work was concerned , but perhaps she could recoup some of the lost time later on . |
| 18 | PEOPLE 'S CHOICE … world Formula One champion Nigel Mansell was last night voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the second time ahead of Olympic gold medallists Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell . |
| 19 | Until last year , Longchamp was the only place to be , but now Phoenix Park in Dublin , where the Cartier Million will be staged for the second time tomorrow , provides a tempting alternative . |
| 20 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 21 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 22 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |
| 23 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 24 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 25 | A DIVORCED couple married for the second time today … 53 years after their first wedding . |
| 26 | That 's the second time today I have n't remembered my |
| 27 | But again is always an illusion , wrote Harsnet , for it would also become clear , the second time round , after several weeks , that one was not doing what one had hoped to do . |
| 28 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 29 | The second time round they dealt with R. and B. Lettings in London NW10 , who they instructed just to find a tenant . |
| 30 | The kitchen , the second time round , was a different proposition , however ; it was too small , and further cramped by an intruding chimneybreast . |