Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 4 | Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do . |
| 5 | If I was to pop my clogs at work or any time you 'd get fifty five thousand eight hundred eighty pounds . |
| 6 | If you 're in two time or four time which you are . |
| 7 | Or next time it could be Robin-Anne . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Paul remembers that the awful thing is that each time he never even felt carsick until after Ed threw up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | Except this time there was another , a thin , raincoated , restless figure . |
| 19 | This issue too concerns third parties , although this time they are creditors rather than buyers . |
| 20 | And his smile made Shelley blush again , although this time she was n't as angry as last time with him for kissing her . |
| 21 | As with the Teardrop , the body is solid alder , although this time it 's contoured on the back . |
| 22 | The effect held up ( although this time it was somewhat smaller ) , and we published the first paper describing the results in 1980 . |
| 23 | Connecting up and getting started is easy , although this time there are 128 patches to try out before deciding which ones to modify . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So the timing may be right — but the most basic reason for owning precious metals is a healthy distrust of governments , their paper promises , their currency cardhouses , their assurances that this time everything will be all right . |
| 26 | That was why , apart from a mild hope that this time his wretched daughter would get herself killed , he did not devote his considerable powers to learning more about the three travellers galloping desperately out of his realm . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |
| 29 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |
| 30 | Debbie was determined that this time she would fight it off . |