Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] time [pron] " 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 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 3 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 4 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 5 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 6 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 7 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 8 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 9 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 10 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 12 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 13 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |