Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised me this time he really would stop cranking . |
| 2 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 3 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 4 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 5 | Oh well , I told you another time then ! |
| 6 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 7 | She intones , in ominous transatlantic baritone : ‘ We licked them this time , but they 'll be back again . |
| 8 | This is all in the working week for Tim Renwick , who spared me some time just before he started work on ‘ Tom Jones — The Right Time ’ … |
| 9 | What reinvigorated them this time was the passing reference in Tuesday 's column to former Sunderland ( and Darlington ) manager Billy Elliott ‘ the old flying winger , ’ recalls Ron . |
| 10 | ‘ You lying git , I heard you that time . ’ |
| 11 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 12 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 13 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 14 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 15 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 16 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 17 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 18 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 19 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 20 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 21 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |
| 22 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 23 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 24 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 25 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 26 | It took her some time to adjust to her new billing as sister to the future Princess of Wales . |
| 27 | It took her some time to unfasten the stiff buttons . |
| 28 | It took her some time to get used to her face without them . |
| 29 | It took her some time to orientate . |
| 30 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |