Example sentences of "in my time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 2 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 3 | When finally she becomes a mother-in-law she is entitled to tyrannise her daughter-in-law , reminding her that ‘ I have suffered in my time now it is your turn ’ . |
| 4 | I have heard of some stupid fashion details in my time , but this is the pits . |
| 5 | The only occasion when rail closures were raised in my time at the Transport Department was in the spring of 1981 . |
| 6 | I went to see the proposed route of the M40 in my time as Transport Minister , but the full motorway was not opened until 1991 . |
| 7 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 8 | I 've learned a lot in my time working under various managers . |
| 9 | I had a room to myself but , because fuel was rationed , there was no heating in it , and so in my time off I was forced to sit with Mr and Mrs Webster . |
| 10 | I 've seen two in my time and I think he 's suffered a stroke . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever the image of Brent , now and in the past , I would applaud it , in my time there , for honestly addressing issues of selection policy that most other authorities were too faint-hearted to address [ the ad hominem attack is typical ] . |
| 12 | I am thirty-six years old , unmarried , I have a good job , a car , a flat , plenty of friends , I take plenty of holidays abroad , and I 've had plenty of girlfriends in my time . |
| 13 | I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all . |
| 14 | I 'VE MET SOME SHARKS IN MY TIME . ’ |
| 15 | In my time though , it was largely checked by the monitors from Standard Seven — those near god-like boys who almost seemed like men . |
| 16 | W. R. You were n't allowed to talk to a girl in my time . |
| 17 | But things were so different in my time , especially those years between the Wars . |
| 18 | I have had the pleasure of seeing some welcome sights in my time , but that comes very near the top of the list . |
| 19 | I 've used honey in my time ! |
| 20 | None is intended — none of us is perfect , and I too have of course been guilty of many an error in my time . |
| 21 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 22 | But , as she wrote in Newsweek , ‘ In my time , we ran a very firm policy ; people knew I would say no . |
| 23 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 24 | The FA are aware of Souness 's comments , particularly about referee Brian Hill , whom he accused of letting ‘ things go on which I 've never seen in my time back in England ’ . |
| 25 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 26 | We missionaries were rather slow to respect this return to the home village by a second funeral service , though in my time it became more acceptable . |
| 27 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 28 | When Gandalf tells Frodo about the Ring , Frodo replies ‘ I wish it need not have happened in my time ’ , but Gandalf reproves him : ‘ So do I … and so do all who live to see such times . |
| 29 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've scored a lot of great goals in my time . ’ |