Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 2 | Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business ! |
| 3 | I went to see him several times before I went home ’ . |
| 4 | I did touch them one time you see but of course there was nothing doing he wan me ! |
| 5 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 6 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 7 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 8 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 9 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 10 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 11 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 12 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 13 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 14 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 15 | By three o'clock she had asked her several times if there was anything she wanted , brought her biscuits and tea and watched the clock for an hour . |
| 16 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 17 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 18 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 19 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 20 | She thought now of her daughter-in-law as she had watched her many times , standing motionless in front of the glass in the hall . |
| 21 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 22 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 23 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 24 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 25 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 26 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 27 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 28 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 29 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 30 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |