Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 2 | He promised me this time he really would stop cranking . |
| 3 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 4 | He caught me last time though . |
| 5 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 8 | So we start negative two , minus two , and I know what add means cos you told me last time . |
| 9 | ‘ Particularly , ’ she continued , quite spoiling the effect , ‘ when I remember all too well what you told me last time we met , as well as … ’ |
| 10 | You told me last time . |
| 11 | My glance allowed me sufficient time to register an abundance of well-washed hair , a rosy cheerful face , a loose-hanging tweed coat and heavily-patterned woollen stockings . |
| 12 | 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 ’ … |
| 13 | He hit me many times and my arm was red . |
| 14 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 15 | it took me five times |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 22 | Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah ! |
| 23 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 24 | That gave me some time to take my new bearings , and I enjoyed sitting late in the evening in the warmth of the Headmaster 's study thumbing through papers and timetables . |
| 25 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |