Example sentences of "it [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 2 | Why was it that time always flew when you did n't want it to ? |
| 3 | I 'm beginning to think you did n't enjoy it that time we did it properly , that you wish you had n't ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Goodness , is it that time already ? ’ |
| 5 | Did he have it that time ? |
| 6 | Sorry , I could n't quite manage it that time |
| 7 | We went past it that time and |
| 8 | One , two , God is it that time ? three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten , eleven , twelve . |
| 9 | Another aim might be to see how far upwind you can sail in ten minutes , trying to beat it each time you do it in the future . |
| 10 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 11 | The first is to have a count field in each record , and increment it each time the record is accessed . |
| 12 | Glennis O'Connor , a secretary in London 's East End , whose son Conrad is now 14 months , says , ‘ I had a horrible time trying to breastfeed — I had one nipple that was so sore it felt like hot pepper was being rubbed into it each time I fed Conrad . |
| 13 | learn how to introduce yourself , so you can do it each time you meet a new person at somebody 's house . |
| 14 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 15 | If , say , he borrows £5,000 three times , repaying it each time , he is treated as severely as someone who borrows £15,000 outright . |
| 16 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
| 17 | ‘ You should try it some time , Inspector , ’ said Henry . |
| 18 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 19 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 20 | I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back . |
| 21 | I 'd like to talk about it some time . ’ |
| 22 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 23 | It was Cousin Saul who took charge of Izzy Kleiber 's corpse , and then ‘ found ’ it some time later — the victim , apparently , of a riverside accident . |
| 24 | Perhaps we would need it some time . |
| 25 | ‘ Might try it some time . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard pointedly , looking at his watch , ‘ we must talk about it some time . ’ |
| 27 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 28 | Mrs Sweet had kept him at it some time . |
| 29 | He gave the banner a second glance , fixing its curves and lines in his mind , storing the sight so that he could draw it some time . |
| 30 | We might use it some time . ’ |