Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
2 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
3 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
4 | In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city . |
5 | Yanto went on to tell Billy about his experience the last time he had used Selwyn 's lavatory . |
6 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
7 | You 'd better clear that with your nan the next time we see her . |
8 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |