Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 2 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 3 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 4 | Disillusion me and get my sympathy at the same time . |
| 5 | I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge . |
| 6 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 7 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 9 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 10 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 11 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 13 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |
| 15 | She was my friend for a long time because we got on really well together . |
| 16 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 17 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 18 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 19 | I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 20 | 1869 ] and finish my doctorate at the same time . " |
| 21 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’ |
| 23 | This is a game I invented to allow me to get some exercise and amuse my children at the same time . |
| 24 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 25 | My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier . |
| 26 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 27 | You have n't been out of my thoughts since the last time we made love . |
| 28 | However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time . |
| 29 | SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days . |
| 30 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |