Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 2 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 3 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 4 | Somehow Florian 's words must have summoned the memory of that first time they had worked together , long years ago , and that sensation of a shadow falling on her had come from the past . |
| 5 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 6 | Well you were n't like that last time I saw you |
| 7 | I just leaked like mad each time I fed Conrad from the other side . |
| 8 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 9 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 10 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 11 | ‘ From that first time I met you . |
| 12 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 13 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 14 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
| 15 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 16 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 17 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 18 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 19 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 20 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 21 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 22 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 23 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 24 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 25 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 26 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 27 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 28 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 29 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 30 | At this particular time he liked to begin the unwinding process . |