Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time .
2 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
3 I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha !
4 I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about .
5 You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’
6 I took it on full time , ’ she said .
7 It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature .
8 oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ?
9 And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time .
10 All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time .
11 He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid .
12 Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her .
13 It reminded her of another time .
14 It was out of season for rugby and so he had plenty of roving time and the nights were growing longer .
15 She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings .
16 As he said himself of this time , ‘ I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle , an unstructured life ; but a consecrated one ; some kind of calling . ’
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