Example sentences of "[adj] time [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 3 | Well would n't it be making a point if erm everybody who was owed this time took it regardless |
| 4 | Malpass brought out his cigarettes again and this time offered me one . |
| 5 | And ha by this time had you or P C said anything ? |
| 6 | What he saw this time surprised him . |
| 7 | All this time left I 'm not used all this you could have snuck another ten in by now . |
| 8 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 9 | Those who worked for ‘ Laura Ashley ’ at this time found it a mixed experience . |
| 10 | Rosener ( 1978 ) finds much consideration in the literature of participation as an end in itself , and this is relatively easy to evaluate : how many clients participated ? what kinds of people ? how frequently ? how much time did they invest ? what were their attitudes ( and those of the workers ) to participation ? |
| 11 | — How much time did you and others spend on making it ? |
| 12 | Mr how much time did you lose by having to switch the machine round ? |
| 13 | And how much time did it take to make the coffin ? |
| 14 | In the summer of 1988 , Islander sailed from Hythe Marina Village bound for southern Norway , but the light winds and limited time caused her to lower her sights and she shaped a course for the Limfjord at the southern end of Jutland . |
| 15 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 16 | How many times had she watched him do that ? |
| 17 | And how many times had she thought how easy it would be to poison him ? |
| 18 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 19 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 20 | How many times had she heard him tell someone that ? |
| 21 | How many times had she come to tuck Lizzy in when she had been small ? |
| 22 | How many times had she pulled in young girls over the years ? |
| 23 | How many times had she said that to people ? |
| 24 | How many times had she reached out to him , trying to rouse the passion they used to share ? |
| 25 | How many times had I heard that remark ? |
| 26 | How many times had I heard , ‘ This is your home , ’ ‘ These are your sons , ’ ‘ You are my sister , ’ ‘ They are your daughters ’ ? |
| 27 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 28 | How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait . |
| 29 | How many times had he caused this quick , sudden ache in her ? |
| 30 | How many times did I tell you I loved you back in Seville ? ’ |