Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 3 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 4 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 5 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 6 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 7 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 8 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 9 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 10 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 11 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 12 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 13 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 14 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 15 | I saw it first time last week and it were great ! |
| 16 | She could never remember the Alice 's registration number without looking it up , though she saw it twenty times a day . |
| 17 | She was jealous of Arabella , and the baby on the way made it ten times worse . |
| 18 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 19 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 20 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 21 | Finally , after 180 gallons of water and three hundredweight of coal going through Jesse , Gerry Williams made it third time lucky . |
| 22 | After two successive League defeats , Abingdon Town made it third time lucky today with an emphatic three nil win over Horsham here at the Culham Road . |
| 23 | When he had the message , he read it several times . |
| 24 | Jinny read it three times . |
| 25 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 26 | Oh I got it first time . |
| 27 | I got it first time . |
| 28 | Well she got it last time so it 's your turn . |
| 29 | So I suppose she got it some time this week . |
| 30 | You got it same time as I got that one , that 's last year 's card that we 've got . |