Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I looked through it this time . |
| 2 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 3 | cos I said to you last time , I said fucking , that was close were n't it ? |
| 4 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 5 | Mrs P Satterley is the reader who wrote to us some time ago to say how wonderful the people at this shop are . |
| 6 | Well we 're we 're quite I mean we agreed to it last time and if the billing 's going to go direct we we can we can forget about it now . |
| 7 | but this is where it got to when we talked about it last time . |
| 8 | We went past it that time and |
| 9 | I , I do n't intend to spend any time on that at all we went through it last time |
| 10 | It 'll be a very , could be a very vague letter just say you remember we wrote to you some time ago that your plan was in arrears , we 've never had this money and we 're now notifying you that we 're gon na collect the arrears on your ne c payment . |
| 11 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |
| 12 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 13 | They travelled in their own time and in their own personal capacities and their expenses were paid by their hosts . ’ |
| 14 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've — er — seen quite a bit of him since I met him when he called for you that time , ’ Leith managed , the ever-present ‘ if you value your job ’ threat there in her head again . |
| 16 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 17 | She went on , ‘ Did you see the way he looked at me that time ? |
| 18 | Trainer David Elsworth said : ‘ He won for me first time last season and perhaps he is a horse who does n't want running too often . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know what he did with his spare time , although I suspect from his conversation that a lot of it was spent in pubs . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 21 | He wrote to me some time later about a meeting with Ivy at Madge Ashton 's when there was some talk about Angus Wilson . |
| 22 | He awoke at his usual time Wednesday morning , November 27 , and remained awake until 12 o'clock Saturday night . |