Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [det] 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 I went to see him several times before I went home ’ .
3 I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building .
4 She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool .
5 She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter .
6 ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And before that , she had seen him several times .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind .
13 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 .
14 They had hit him several times for lying .
15 He 'd seen it many times .
16 ‘ 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 !
17 He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too .
18 It had left them some time to take stock of their lives .
19 He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’
20 His instructions were clear ; he had repeated them many times .
21 He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him .
22 He had done it many times before .
23 Indeed he had changed it several times a day while the crucial events were occurring .
24 His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput .
25 And after that , wherever you go it must be far away because , as Father said , he missed killing him this time , but he wo n't the next .
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