Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 2 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 3 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 4 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 5 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 6 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 7 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 8 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 9 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 10 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 11 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 13 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 14 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 15 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 16 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 17 | It hangs over me the whole time . |
| 18 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 19 | Cedric , on the other band , though obviously delighted to meet her , gave no hint of doing his part , After sniffing her over , he danced around her a few times , goofy-faced , tongue lolling . |
| 20 | copy to you the first time |
| 21 | Has known about her a long time . |
| 22 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 23 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 24 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 27 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |
| 28 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 29 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 30 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |