Example sentences of "the third time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 2 | Tellingly enough , the only track on there with real drumming was the acknowledge classic ‘ The Third Time We Opened The Capsule ’ , a song which literally soars above the rest and spits . |
| 3 | About the third time we went to the beach ( I took them to the one known since 1945 as ‘ Staging Post B ’ ) , as soon as I rejoined the group I realised she 'd told them . |
| 4 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 5 | But the third time they had turned it up so it kept on going big waves so I I missed the steps so the erm one of the lifeguards |
| 6 | He did that again three times on the way , and after the third time he was barely stumbling along , dragging the rifle . |
| 7 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 8 | It was the third time he had proposed this . |
| 9 | The third time he was eight days in an open boat before they picked him up , near dying of exposure , and his nerve gone . |
| 10 | Des Thompson , a specialist in animal heart disease , carried out the operation at his Earlswood surgery in Belmont Road , Belfast — only the third time he has fitted a pacemaker . |
| 11 | comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to . |
| 12 | But the third time he tried to drive away from them in his Ford Escort down a public footpath he was followed and caught . |
| 13 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
| 14 | It 's the third time he 's been a UK finalist . |
| 15 | that 's the third time he 's done it , I had such a go at him |
| 16 | The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully . |
| 17 | The third time you step out , you face a full point penalty . |
| 18 | That 's the third time you 've put all your cards on the table ! |
| 19 | And then he talked to his family , and then the third time I asked him again , and he still said it was okay , and so we did it . |
| 20 | His term of office came between those of two Ministers with close associations with Portadown — the Reverend R H Gallagher BA ( whose first sermon at the beginning of his last term in Portadown had a singularly apposite text : ‘ This is the third time I am coming to you ’ II Corinthians 13 v 1 ) and the Reverend W. E Morley Thompson . |
| 21 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 22 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 23 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 24 | This was the third time I had attended this enjoyable day 's racing . |
| 25 | ‘ Point Counter Point — Contrepoint as we had to call it in our rigid language — for the third time I might add . ’ |
| 26 | And it was not only because it was the third time I had heard precisely how that acrobatic quartet achieved congress . |
| 27 | ‘ This is only the third time I 've met him . ’ |
| 28 | This is the third time I 've made the trip in a year . |
| 29 | " Well , it 's up to you of course , Mr Dakin , but this is the third time I 've had to stitch her teats and I 'm afraid it 's going to keep on happening . " |
| 30 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |