Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] time " 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 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 5 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 7 | It was difficult to see him alone , but I did manage a few times . |
| 8 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 9 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 10 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 11 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 12 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 13 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 14 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 15 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 17 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 18 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 19 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 20 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 21 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 22 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 23 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 24 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |