Example sentences of "[pos pn] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's during my time that I remember . |
| 2 | I was of no fixed abode , but I 'd finished my time so they still let me go . |
| 3 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ . |
| 5 | Never in my time but I 've heard it spoken about here . |
| 6 | near , well not quite seven so I mean I do n't have to do a lot but I just liked to er take my time and you know |
| 7 | The first thing Maxine said to me when she entered my consulting room was that she hoped she was not wasting my time and she was sorry she was being so stupid . |
| 8 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 9 | ‘ For the first time in many a year , I 'm able to take my time and I must say , it 's rather an enjoyable experience . |
| 10 | I 've seen two in my time and I think he 's suffered a stroke . ’ |
| 11 | I found Timelord to be extremely useful in controlling my time and I am now awaiting my registered version . |
| 12 | I found Timelord to be extremely useful in controlling my time and I am now awaiting my registered version . |
| 13 | I like looking in shop windows so I can take my time if I 'm on my own . |
| 14 | ‘ Not very often ; my ukulele takes up most of my time as you know . ’ |
| 15 | Well I 've had them in my time as you know . |
| 16 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 17 | I 'll bide my time until I 'm in the ring and then I 'll prove that what I 've studied and believe in is right . |
| 18 | Assuming I am unrecognized , I shall bide my time until I can gain entrance to the tower and the winding stairs to the upper floor . ’ |
| 19 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 20 | Young adult males are driven out of this group and form separate bachelor parties that must bide their time until they can steal young females and set up an oligarchy of their own . |
| 21 | If the teacher imposes all the discipline , then will the pupils learn to access their own will , or do they simply bide their time until they leave school ? |
| 22 | The showmen were men of their time and they knew how easy it was to tell stories that would be sympathetic to the common man , that would condemn all truly evil men and their agencies , and yet at the same time would do nothing other than confirm existing social values . |
| 23 | and that , that to me is just a waste of time , no I mean I 'm wasting their time and mine so |
| 24 | Well that was a waste of their time if they 'd have gone round there to view them , were n't it ? |
| 25 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 26 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 27 | She looked Asian , the only Asian on the check-out that day , and she was taking her time as she was still learning her way around . |
| 28 | Beth stood alone , a quiet solitary figure , heavy with child , biding her time until she might be called to say goodbye . |
| 29 | At her memorial service , co-workers and students both young and mature thanked Jo for her generosity in giving them her time until she died . |
| 30 | forty percent of her time because she does it so quickly but er oh |