Example sentences of "[verb] this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean this time you 're sober ? ’ he enquired silkily . |
| 2 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've already promised this time I 'll listen . ’ |
| 4 | Erm this time everyone 's at Wembley and you 're asking people , Right , if you draw this time we draw three big circles in the middle of Wembley , okay , and ask people to come and say which football team they think is a good one . |
| 5 | In Dec. 1892 another meeting was called this time it was to discuss the construction of a high level bridge , and to print a pamphlet together with a lithograph plan of the proposed bridge . |
| 6 | Supporters of the campaign two years ago to ban hunting , believe this time they will win . |
| 7 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 9 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 10 | I feel kind of cheated myself , and I stare at all the shops and people knowing this time I really wo n't be back . |
| 11 | To release this time you must not tolerate desultory study , giving up at the slightest excuse before any solid result is accomplished . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm on my way home from Oxford , and thought this time I 'd come through London and look you up . ’ |
| 13 | To do this , number each article and associate each number with its own " hook " , for example , your list might begin as follows This time you associate in a ridiculous way bun and aeroplane , pew and clock , bee and carrot and so on . |
| 14 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But I think this time it 's different in that teams will have to score two goals to beat us because we 're always going to get one . |
| 17 | realize this time she 'll |
| 18 | But if his empire fails this time it will join the record books as the largest business collapse in the world . |