Example sentences of "[adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if by a flash of lightning , I awoke as if struck by lightning ; this time again I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences . |
| 2 | The earliest of these was at Kiev where , in 988 , Vladimir , Grand Duke of Kiev was converted to Christianity and from this time onwards he and his successors encouraged commerce and cultural exchange between the area and Constantinople . |
| 3 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
| 4 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 5 | I lie there light-headed on the pillow at half-past four in the morning , knowing that anyway it 's nearly over , that by this time tomorrow we 'll have done it , that by this time the next day I 'll be out of the country . |
| 6 | This time tomorrow we 'll know at long last what the future holds for Oxford United and Swindon Town , with a dramatic finale to the football league season in store . |
| 7 | Of course tomorrow 's Gold Cup day at Cheltenham and this time tomorrow we 'll be back with the results and of course all the highlights . |
| 8 | At least , I thought , by this time tomorrow it will be all over . |
| 9 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 10 | Second , Iago 's terrible silence once his deceptions have been exposed : ‘ Demand me nothing , what you know , you know , /From this time forth I never will speak word ’ ( V.ii.304f. ) : this refusal of language is the logical outcome of the destructive egoism with which Iago has put himself outside , and in his own eyes above , society . |
| 11 | This time too she walked around the room and studied the paintings . |
| 12 | And Lot sixty one phonograph spare parts this time there we are , Lot sixty one and I have a hundred offered and ten , one twenty , one thirty any more ? |
| 13 | Well if there is this time maybe it 'll work . |
| 14 | We do meet again with the company tomorrow to try and further progress the matter and hopefully , but my big fear is , is that it is a two-stage closure that they will go for nine hundred this time then we 'll find that useful , expensive equipment will be transferred to Sweden . |
| 15 | I , it went through alright , but er I 've got a reminder this time so I I thought well |
| 16 | This time yesterday I would have said that what had happened last night was a laughable impossibility . |
| 17 | The G-BUM series appears to have been passed over — with G-BUMF and G-BUMP allotted some time ago we can not believe the CAA has turned prudish in its old age … ! |
| 18 | And if you recall some time ago we wrote and said we would like the buses that go down Station Lane Edingley to come through our village . |
| 19 | Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end . |
| 20 | ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 22 | Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol , who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier . |
| 23 | Some time ago I achieved a longstanding ambition — a lead of Slape Direct on Llanberis 's Clogwyn y Grochan . |
| 24 | Some time ago I turned up at Broadcasting House to meet someone for lunch . |
| 25 | Some time ago I commented in an article that too many people sought their main interests outside their work . |
| 26 | Some time ago I read an article on Dante , Petrarch , Boccaccio and Botticelli . |
| 27 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 28 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 29 | As it stands and we must not forget that UNESCO tried something similar some time ago it would appear that purely political motives are making trade impossible . |
| 30 | Some time ago it was suggested that three east coast sites , at Brough-on-Humber , Caister-by-Yarmouth and Rochester , possessed late second or early third-century fortifications which were different from the general run of urban defences of this date . |