Example sentences of "about the [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 2 | Here you see the Sheffield ladies , Pauline [ branch secretary ] , Diane [ sales controller ] , Joan [ service controller ] and Sue [ receptionist ] still talking about the fantastic time they had . |
| 3 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 4 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 5 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 6 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 7 | About the third time we went to the beach ( I took them to the one known since 1945 as ‘ Staging Post B ’ ) , as soon as I rejoined the group I realised she 'd told them . |
| 8 | At about the same time we made the acquaintance of a young Nigerian living in the town , and in due course his bride came to stay in our house until her marriage . |
| 9 | About the same time he purchased Maisonette , a country house and grounds in Ingatestone . |
| 10 | In 1785 he won the competition for a public building in his native county of Angus , the town and county hall in Forfar ; at about the same time he secured the patronage of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v. ] , the most powerful man in Scotland , for whom he designed Melville Castle , Midlothian ( 1786–91 ) ; while his small number of English patrons included the collector Sir George Beaumont [ q.v. ] , to whose London residence he added a picture gallery ( 1790–2 ) . |
| 11 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 12 | At about the same time he helped to found the Liverpool Medical Library and the Liverpool Blind Asylum . |
| 13 | About the same time he defeated the Picts in battle . |
| 14 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 15 | About the same time I heard gunfire . |
| 16 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 17 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 18 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |
| 19 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 20 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |