Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them entered a place outside time , on a day of such stillness and heat . |
| 2 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 3 | I meowed a couple of times and steeled myself as she came over . |
| 4 | Mind you , I suffered a number of times because of this . |
| 5 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 6 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 7 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 8 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 10 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |
| 11 | All this was a strong indication that the important weakening defects lay on the surface and around 1957 Margaret Parratt , David Marsh and I spent a lot of time examining the surface of glass . |
| 12 | I spent a lot of time listening to records and just hanging out with friends . |
| 13 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 14 | ‘ I spent a lot of time speaking with Jean-Claude Olivier [ chief of French Yamaha importers Sonauto and their GP team ] in the months after the last GP . |
| 15 | I spent a lot of time lying on the couch in the living room , watching day-time television with a sneer on my face and my books on my lap , making snide remarks at the soaps and quizzes , chat shows and audience participation fora , skimming the scummy surface of our effervescent present in preference to plumbing the adumbrate depths of the underlying past . |
| 16 | I spent a lot of time with him . |
| 17 | For the background landscape , I spent a lot of time sketching at Sandringham and altered some aspects to make the composition more pleasing . |
| 18 | ‘ I spent a lot of time with Phil Silvers talking about his family away from the others , ’ Anita Harris now recalls . |
| 19 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 20 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 21 | I went into dyslexia because when I did that course we had the opportunity to do a special study of a subject of our own choice and I spent a lot of time on dyslexia because I was already interested in it before I started . |
| 22 | Would have to be er probably a lot lower , this would probably be a maximum , because , I felt I needed a bit of time , to just sort of , you know , pass information . |
| 23 | I lost a lot of time [ lost remission as a punishment for breaking the rules ] , what with the bairn and everything . |
| 24 | Obviously , I lost a lot of time there and when I came out I really did n't find the new tyres as much of an advantage as I had hoped . |
| 25 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
| 26 | I took a lot of time off , always after the indoor season , and returned smiling in the summer . |
| 27 | If you step out of line , as I did a couple of times , trying too hard to find out how much money he earns , then he will pull you back and forget it , but you feel that if you were to commit a serious breach then we would not forgive . |
| 28 | ‘ My appointment was n't until eleven , so I had a bit of time to spare . |
| 29 | And I had a lot of time to myself . |
| 30 | " I had a lot of time to prepare myself . |