Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 5 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
| 6 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | ‘ I like a drink and I like to have a good time ! |
| 8 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 9 | I mean I use to do a full time job outside the home , then come back and do all the housework and the washing and the children . |
| 10 | It was difficult to see him alone , but I did manage a few times . |
| 11 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 12 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 13 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 14 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 15 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 16 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 17 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 18 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 20 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 21 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 22 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 23 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 24 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 25 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 26 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 27 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 28 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 29 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 30 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |