Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well you were n't like that last time I saw you |
| 6 | I just leaked like mad each time I fed Conrad from the other side . |
| 7 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 8 | ‘ From that first time I met you . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 11 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 12 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 15 | At this particular time he liked to begin the unwinding process . |