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 | ‘ But give me this any time , ’ he laughed . |
| 4 | There was , it is understood , no lack of enthusiasm among these leading lights ; it was more a case of ‘ ask me some other time ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 7 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 8 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 9 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll tell you some other time , ’ he said , putting down the receiver . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell you some other time , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you some other time about Catherine 's special squad of ladies , the Escadron Volant , whom she used to seduce her opponents . |
| 14 | By everyone , see you some other time if you know what I mean . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a hell of a burden to have carried around with you all this time , ’ Luke said feelingly . |
| 20 | Course , they drop onto you any old time if they come but if they ca n't |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | " You do n't want me , " Edward repeated , " if you did , you 'd have been with me all this time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 27 | Yeah she had n't done them all this time . |
| 28 | That 's what he told me when I interviewed him that second time in Buenos Aires . ’ |
| 29 | That had been choking him this long time gone . |
| 30 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |