Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Orynthia lived on , despite it all — off to Honduras again in March , 1840 , where this time it was the cook who ended up in prison : William Rhodes took her out to Fernando Po , Ascension and India in 1841 , and William Cox was master again on a voyage to the Cape and Burma in 1843 , in which year he sold his half-share to Henry Johnson , a City merchant . |
| 2 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
| 3 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 4 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
| 5 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 6 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
| 7 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 8 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 9 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 10 | Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do . |
| 11 | If I was to pop my clogs at work or any time you 'd get fifty five thousand eight hundred eighty pounds . |
| 12 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 13 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 14 | Or next time it could be Robin-Anne . |
| 15 | ‘ None of the electronic or automatic systems work , so each time you bowl , a man jumps down from a shelf behind the pins at the end of your lane , switches the light off , resets the pins , jumps back onto his shelf and switches the light back on ! ’ she said . |
| 16 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 17 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 18 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 19 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 20 | Paul remembers that the awful thing is that each time he never even felt carsick until after Ed threw up . |
| 21 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 22 | I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is ! |
| 23 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 24 | The Gloucester ski racing team are out on the slopes training all winter … except this time we 're not high up in the Alps but right here in England in Telford in shropshire … this is artificial snow … its the only slope of its kind in the country … and to save money and time our young racers are coming here to train … |
| 25 | This issue too concerns third parties , although this time they are creditors rather than buyers . |
| 26 | And his smile made Shelley blush again , although this time she was n't as angry as last time with him for kissing her . |
| 27 | As with the Teardrop , the body is solid alder , although this time it 's contoured on the back . |
| 28 | The effect held up ( although this time it was somewhat smaller ) , and we published the first paper describing the results in 1980 . |
| 29 | The following evening ( that was three expensive dinners in a row , which made a contrast to Georg 's grudging once a month treat at the cinema ) she had insisted that this time they talk about him . |
| 30 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |