Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
2 ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game .
3 He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking ,
4 The sea was trying to break the ship into pieces , and we had very little time .
5 And we went there last time , and all they had left was chips and this fatty stew .
6 And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it .
7 If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it
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