Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I have seen other researchers do this and have watched higher managers set the scene and limit the enquiry to specific areas — outside management proper — as though the problem existed in a vacuum. , ( Dalton 1959 ) |
| 2 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 3 | Though politicians often claim that the authority the law claims for itself is justified , there has hardly been any political theorist in recent times who has shared this view . |
| 4 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 5 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 6 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 7 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 8 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 9 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 10 | Oh good , er , That 's the first time I 've heard religious sort of erm I better not say what I was going to say . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear , dear fellow , if I had a lira for every time I 've heard that story … well … ’ |
| 12 | It was the only time I 've worn four layers on the top in a race . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ It 's the second time I 've suffered this sort of problem . |
| 14 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 15 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 16 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 17 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 18 | From time to time I have had vivid dreams in which the Majestic has again been open for business , the glass cases full of photographs , lit up , with posters advertising wonderful movies covering the outside walls . |
| 19 | It was the first time she had expressed any sympathy for the Daily Mirror pensioners . |
| 20 | She walked to the desk and put down the vase and by the time she had done this Gabriel was gone . |
| 21 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 22 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 23 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 24 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 25 | Since this time she has campaigned 30 dogs to the title of Champion , and she and her daughter Julia bred and owned the all-time top winning King Charles , Champion Curtana Morgana . |
| 26 | Since that time she has published four articles in which she discusses the problems women experimental writers face ( 1986d , 1988a , 1989a , 1989c ; see also 1989e ) . |
| 27 | Well by the time she 's finished this course she should be confident to hold on to things in the water , you know |
| 28 | Perform well whatever assignments you have , have you noticed the Watchtower that were studying today , we 've all got it with you I think , just turn to page twenty six turn to page twenty two , you 'll see what it 's about , it 's about a brother Roy , who has always advocated sticking close to Jehovah 's organization , guide to organization , give you a life story , and it 's quite interesting reading , and again it 's a test of your alertness , your vigilance , whether or not your spirits be awake or not , is this the first time you 've seen that article ? |
| 29 | ‘ Now look here , ’ I/she said , ‘ this is the second time you 've disrupted this evening . |
| 30 | Is that the first time you 've done that song ? |