Example sentences of "the [adj] time [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 2 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 3 | Could we also look at the actual time that 's on crossing signals . |
| 4 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 5 | He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie . |
| 6 | For the second time that night the prison door slammed shut . |
| 7 | For the second time that day , Corbett was shaken awake , an insistent voice calling his name . |
| 8 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 9 | She was in Wales for the second time that year . |
| 10 | And for the second time that day , the bride vowed : ‘ I will ! ’ |
| 11 | Adam Carver returned on foot to Rose Bower for the second time that evening . |
| 12 | For the second time that night she slid silently in at a garden gate . |
| 13 | For the second time that month Flavia slept late . |
| 14 | Ann 's dragged out of bed at five in the morning , for the second time that night . |
| 15 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 16 | Wu Shih smiled , surprised for the second time that morning at Wang Sauleyan . |
| 17 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 18 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 19 | For the second time that day she went to the canteen . |
| 20 | For the second time that afternoon Sniffy Wilson rang Rain . |
| 21 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 22 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 23 | As I climbed the stairs for the second time that morning , more wearily this time , I heard the sound of a keg being gently turned in a lock . |
| 24 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
| 25 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
| 26 | For the second time that day , his sovereign had assured him that he was the only man to lead the country through the crisis and had asked him to reconsider his resignation . |
| 27 | For the second time that evening , Loretta felt a sense of unreality quite at odds with the purpose of her visit . |
| 28 | Then , for the second time that evening , all three of them made their way to Puddephat 's window and let themselves into his rooms . |
| 29 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
| 30 | For the second time that evening . |