Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 3 | You have n't given me enough time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 5 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 7 | The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already . |
| 8 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 9 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 10 | I think I 've cracked it this time . ’ |
| 11 | Actually , we have earned our quiet time , for six months continuously in action is enough for anybody … ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Coates said : ‘ We have had a lot of support getting this set up , many local firms have contributed and a lot of people have given their free time . |
| 13 | Given their short time in port , members continued to be disappointed when instant success eluded them . |
| 14 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 15 | As for the others , there 's a hard core who attend virtually all the Circle 's functions ; I 've seen them many times over the years . |
| 16 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 17 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 18 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 19 | I could have strangled her many times ; only the fact that she 's your sister prevented me . ’ |
| 20 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 21 | Susan had met her several times , and had always said she 'd like to know her better . |
| 22 | " I have met you several times with Edward . " |
| 23 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 24 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 25 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 26 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 27 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 28 | yeah sometimes , I 've phoned him more times than he 's phoned me , put it that way |
| 29 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 30 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |