Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the third time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 2 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 3 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 6 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |