Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked what time it had happened . |
| 2 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 3 | I divided my time between my hundreds of pet animals at home and the wild animals in the Wiltshire countryside . |
| 4 | I divided my time between Herbert 's and his father 's home . |
| 5 | I described our time at Canjuers , the singing and the landscapes . |
| 6 | I told , I told her time ! |
| 7 | At last I judged it time to get off and start walking . |
| 8 | I bided my time but patience was still not a part of my nature no matter how continually I courted it . |
| 9 | I must say that I enjoyed my time in hospital . |
| 10 | I enjoyed my time at Fontainebleau , especially wandering in the forest , hoping to see a wild boar . |
| 11 | ‘ I enjoyed my time at Omagh and was reasonably successful , but in the meantime I 'm back in training . |
| 12 | ‘ I enjoyed my time at ’ he said . |
| 13 | Then we moved to the and then I went to Road School , which I finished my time there , fourteen . |
| 14 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 15 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 16 | That 's where I served my time they did n't phew |
| 17 | So perhaps , if I spent my time explaining how and why I found difficulty , that must be some sort of substitute . |
| 18 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 19 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 20 | I spent my time weeding , raking and sowing my vegetable patch . |
| 21 | Over the next two months I spent my time between staying at my boyfriend 's house at weekends and the LIFE house on weekdays . |
| 22 | I taught for a term at a crammer half a mile from my home , and instead of passing lazy days with charming children whose actively hatted mothers would smile , condescend and yet flirt during some endless pollen-spattered sports day , I spent my time with the son of the local bookmaker ( he lent me his bike : I crashed it ) and the daughter of the suburb 's solicitor . |
| 23 | My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule . |
| 24 | I was not allowed to return to Bolivia , so I spent my time and energy denouncing what was happening and setting up solidarity networks . |
| 25 | Basically I do n't disagree with you , aye we have got the best army and I loved my I loved my time in the Army but I 'm totally against the way I was treated in the Army . |
| 26 | ‘ I warned him time and again — he got sometimes so drunk they had tae carry him inside the cage — but what kin ye dae wie a man that wo n't listen ? ’ |
| 27 | Well , I survived my time with Seve , and in my first full year with Sandy I thought he was going to come up trumps straight away in the Open . |
| 28 | Well again going back to when I started my time etcetera . |
| 29 | I wish I knew what time it was . |
| 30 | I wish I knew what time they were taken . |