Example sentences of "[adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 2 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 3 | It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out . |
| 4 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 5 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 6 | ‘ Strange times we live in . ’ |
| 7 | Strange times we live in , he said , when he finds himself looking over his shoulder and thinking he might be safer in Sarajevo . |
| 8 | At different times he published works by Sarah Fielding , Charlotte Lennox , Susanna Centlivre , Eliza Haywood , Elizabeth Carter , and Mary Barber , as well as others . |
| 9 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 10 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 11 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
| 12 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 13 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 14 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 15 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 16 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 17 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 18 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 19 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 20 | By how few times he has lost his way ? |
| 21 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 22 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 23 | The first few times you go it 's interesting and exciting as anything new is , but eventually it 's hot and dusty and really quite boring . |
| 24 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 25 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 26 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 27 | I do n't know , the last few times I 've tried to come off , I have n't really wanted to come off , thinking about it now . |
| 28 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 29 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 30 | Peck adds that ‘ Some times they prod him with Needles , sometimes they pepper him , sometimes they Shoot at him . ’ |