Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 2 | I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] . |
| 3 | The second time she was blunter : ‘ Why do n't you piss off ? ’ |
| 4 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 5 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 6 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 7 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 8 | The first time it was me who wanted a divorce , but the second time it was n't my choice . |
| 9 | But , the second time it was all four of us that went . |
| 10 | Hatton got knocked on the head the first time but the second time he was n't hurt , only tied up . ’ |
| 11 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 12 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 13 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |
| 14 | Basically the full time I was in basic training and when I went to the Regimental the Royal Highl Fusiliers Regiment the first battalion , I was physically beaten and mentally tortured er into the same bargain . |
| 15 | Two of them ( the men , I mean ) became quite fond of John during the short time he was with them , and expressed much regret at his leaving , begging him to come again and to bring his gin , meaning his wife , with him . ’ |
| 16 | I sometimes cycled to Bude Grammar School for the short time I was there . |
| 17 | Collins was in his fifth final , having appeared twice each for Cardiff and Newport , and for the fourth time he was on the winning side . |
| 18 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 19 | For the first time I was free of obligation or responsibility . |
| 20 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 21 | That was the first time I was conscious that before the apocalypse I had never thought of visualising anywhere but in my stomach . |
| 22 | The first time I was too young to know what I was doing and we split up after only seven months . |
| 23 | The first time I was just a mere kid ! |
| 24 | It was the first time I was able to say it . |
| 25 | ‘ In Africa , ’ she continues , ‘ it was the first time I was confronted by these women that were fearless with each other . |
| 26 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |
| 27 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 28 | The first time I was strung out I did n't know what it was . |
| 29 | For the first time I was in touch with my deepest emotions . |
| 30 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |