Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't wan na like that dear , I want the squat time . |
| 2 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |
| 3 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 4 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 5 | I remember the final time I saw him . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I was born in Upper Pitt Street and I remember the hard times we had . ’ |
| 7 | " I wish I knew the exact time , " she said . |
| 8 | But I chose the wrong time when prices were depressed and there was n't a great deal to come after all the expenses were paid . |
| 9 | Erm I I think the only time that people might have slept in here is if you had a visitor who had a lot of servants and there was simply nowhere else to put them . |
| 10 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 11 | David would always be seen in public , would always have to do interviews , do a video or go into a recording studio — so I think the whole time was taken up by feeling involved in the whole Ziggy period or Ziggy way of thinking . |
| 12 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 13 | I picked the right time . |
| 14 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 15 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 16 | Do you remember the approximate time of that . |
| 17 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 18 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 19 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 20 | You wo n't feel so bad about reprimanding your youngster ( indeed , punishing him or her quite severely when the occasion merits it ) if you find the appropriate times to display your positive feelings . |
| 21 | Netting has many advantages for those who do it well , who choose the right time , place , wind and situation . |
| 22 | ‘ You spend the whole time itching and scratching , and the wounds become infected . |
| 23 | I do n't think that er , I think that unfortunately some of the older doctors definitely were misinformed and were n't educated and I think nowadays that the doctors are becoming very much more educated and perhaps the ones who have the bad time are the fortunate ones in so far as they 're getting the hormone replacement therapy if they 're lucky and they have sympathetic general practitioner . |
| 24 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 25 | We remember the good times , forget the bad . |
| 26 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 27 | We believe the extra time and attention to detail is worth it . |
| 28 | We note the elapsed time at that quarter-point , knock off a minute to allow for the initial climb out of Gransden , and mentally predict the arrival time at the half-way point . |
| 29 | Now when they cuts the roads every week if there was a watch as you go by , you see them cutting the whole time with a tractor . |
| 30 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |