Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 3 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 4 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 5 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 6 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 7 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 8 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 9 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 10 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 11 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 12 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 13 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 14 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 15 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 16 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 17 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 18 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 19 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 21 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 22 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 23 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 24 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 25 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 26 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 27 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 28 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 29 | You did leave some time in this afternoon 's schedule for that little detail , did n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |