Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | W first of all though I think I 've got them right this time I hope , the World Health Organization , charities , the United Nations , the European Commission erm foreign business organizations and l the bodies that lay down regulations er for activities . |
| 2 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 3 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 4 | When I 've got some more time I 'm going to offer my services again . |
| 5 | If I do manage to find some spare time I 'll be studying Spanish because you need something to take your mind off the racing . ’ |
| 6 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 7 | And this particular time I said , well maybe we should use Durex . |
| 8 | This last time I was better prepared . |
| 9 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 10 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 11 | But everything was fine last time I went . |
| 12 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 13 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 14 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 15 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 16 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 17 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 18 | All that time I kept thinking , do I love him ? |
| 19 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 20 | All that time I 've kept myself in trim . |
| 21 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 22 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 23 | All that time I 've used heroin , dikes , Palfium , you name it . |
| 24 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 25 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 26 | All this time I was desperately worried about my family . |
| 27 | All this time I was trying to make a little money by doing hack-work translations of French and German children 's stories . |
| 28 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 29 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 30 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |