Example sentences of "i [vb past] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
2 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
3 | But I chose the wrong time when prices were depressed and there was n't a great deal to come after all the expenses were paid . |
4 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
5 | I was in my late twenties and , like any sailor , I liked a good time when I was on leave . |
6 | I had the best time ever . ’ |
7 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
8 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |