Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 2 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 3 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 4 | ‘ But give me this any time , ’ he laughed . |
| 5 | There was , it is understood , no lack of enthusiasm among these leading lights ; it was more a case of ‘ ask me some other time ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm very fond of Mel , although he 's given me some hard times . |
| 7 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 8 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 9 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 10 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 11 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 12 | A little later he crooked her in the shelter of his arms and said , ‘ You 've no idea what it took for me to come over to see you that first time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll tell you some other time , ’ he said , putting down the receiver . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll tell you some other time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I 'll tell you some other time about Catherine 's special squad of ladies , the Escadron Volant , whom she used to seduce her opponents . |
| 16 | By everyone , see you some other time if you know what I mean . |
| 17 | And they did n't work so many hours , I worked er I do n't know whether I told you this last time but er I worked , my normal week was sixty six hours , sixty six hours for five shilling . |
| 18 | ‘ Did it take you all that time to invent this story and to select your wardrobe from the charity shops ? ’ he asked with sinister softness . |
| 19 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's a hell of a burden to have carried around with you all this time , ’ Luke said feelingly . |
| 22 | Course , they drop onto you any old time if they come but if they ca n't |
| 23 | Then at the bottom of the page erm , he says I am in the history department and he says I shall probably tell you several more times and indeed he does in the play . |
| 24 | ‘ Watch your tongue , Forest — I 've sufficient information against you and the other rogue to hang you both twenty times over . |
| 25 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 26 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 27 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 28 | " You do n't want me , " Edward repeated , " if you did , you 'd have been with me all this time . |
| 29 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 30 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |