Example sentences of "the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | A SCHOOLBOY hooked on vice and crime has been arrested — for the 69th time . |
| 32 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | For the second time in his life the icy fingers of death pierced his innermost self . |
| 35 | As expected , Martina , fresh from victory in the Dow Classic in Birmingham , proceeded unharmed to the final , defeating Amanda Coetzer and Brenda Schulz for the second time in a week , Mary Joe Fernandez , and Heather Ludloff , all in straight sets . |
| 36 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 37 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 38 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | A CONVICTED mass murderer has , for the second time , bloodied the nose , metaphorically speaking , of Malcolm Rifkind , the Secretary of State for Scotland , by successfully pursuing a claim for damages . |
| 42 | JOHN WHITAKER scooped his sponsor 's pool at the Horse of the Year Show for the second time running on the spring-heeled Next Milton , when winning last night 's Next International Masters , writes Genevieve Murphy . |
| 43 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 44 | ALI NORRISH , the Oxford University Boat Club president , offered to resign last night after failing her first-year engineering examinations for the second time . |
| 45 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 46 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 47 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 48 | Yesterday Silvino Francisco became his victim for the second time . |
| 49 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 50 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 51 | Last month the company warned , for the second time this year , that profits would be disappointing . |
| 52 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 53 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 54 | I slung my rifle over my shoulder and clutching the bottle of wine I crossed the bridge for the second time , heading east , turning to wave to the couple at the door of the café . |
| 55 | The Reykjavik summit , when President Reagan met Mr Gorbachev for the second time , led to a notable strain between Washington and London . |
| 56 | The first time was when his mother died ; the second time was when Frank died . |
| 57 | The second time I caught a bus to the coast . |
| 58 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 59 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . |