Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to other mothers I learn that , like me , they too were disgusted and we all agreed that next time we would ask for another consultant . |
| 2 | ELECTION fever again and the main thing many voters found off-putting last time still troubles them today : the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 4 | Taking a room at the YMCA I made side-trips to Victoria , Nanaimo and Seattle , and vowed that next time I would go further south to see San Francisco , Los Angeles , Hollywood and Mexico . |
| 5 | My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away . |
| 6 | Dublin photographer Fennell will again drive a Mini Cooper S and will be up against Mervyn Johnston , the Ulster driver who finished second last time . |
| 7 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 8 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 9 | She had outgrown the collection of grey china kittens now , and the pink lace doilies on her dressing-table , and decided that next time she came out here she would clear out the room . |
| 10 | 121 yachts had their rigging and sails checked one last time and then crews pottered about anxiously , generating an atmosphere of nervousness so pervasive that even the spectators felt tense . |
| 11 | Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work . |
| 12 | The second fact issued before us and it 's one that I referred to er when we did it , debated this last time is that if members do take seriously the whole question of |
| 13 | He looked one last time at the car , as it was winched onto the trailer . |
| 14 | Garvey fixes them — like he did that first time in Horsey , when he paid that waster to act blind . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Chairman er when we discussed this last time er I expressed the view that in fact er the county council had better things to do I 've not changed my mind erm since but I have been reminded that er when er the Roman Emperors er found ascension in the ranks when Roman Emperors found ascension in the ranks they provided bread and circuses and I have to say that I regard the two notices of motion which were placed in Mr notably fox hunting and this debate on V A T as bread and circuses . |
| 16 | He voted Liberal last time himself , but you have to be fair . |
| 17 | Bernard Allway , 55 , voted Tory last time but swung to Labour early on in the hustings in protest at the poll tax and the economy . |
| 18 | ‘ My mother left that last time she was here . |
| 19 | You had that last time . |
| 20 | I had three last time . |
| 21 | Have you got fifty , cos you had thirty last time did n't you . |
| 22 | They embraced one last time and then he was off , rushing to Ferdinando to help him carry down what he claimed were his ‘ very most precious ’ things . |