Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 2 | How could I say no ? ’ he asked rhetorically , vowing next time he would do just that . |
| 3 | Oh what do you mean you promise , you promised last time you 'd get it right and you did n't . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've already promised this time I 'll listen . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , well if we had , if we had of had more time we could 've , like , written each individual room but really I just put the numbers down quickly just to , to demonstrate |
| 6 | No , but er , I do n't know people , it 's , it 's where people get their ideas from I think for a start , I know one time we used to sell oh a lot of erm spotlights and spotlamps , but only to people who were running discos , er now erm there are people who erm , well they , they want a , a couple in the lounge or something like that or , and er , and then of course they , there 's others who erm have them outside and light up their trees , at night . |
| 7 | We were talking of the boys you know one time she used to go with Richard and |
| 8 | I ordinarily rise by six ; I will allow you to lie half an hour after me then you 'll have some time you may call your own . |
| 9 | Supporters of the campaign two years ago to ban hunting , believe this time they will win . |
| 10 | He had made them himself with the things the girl , Marie , had brought last time she 'd come . |
| 11 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 12 | To release this time you must not tolerate desultory study , giving up at the slightest excuse before any solid result is accomplished . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm on my way home from Oxford , and thought this time I 'd come through London and look you up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What is disturbing is conducting the National Youth Orchestra in Britain — wonderful , disciplined players — and knowing next time I will see them , in years to come — all that sense of orchestral order may be lost . ’ |
| 15 | But I think next time I might have it cut short . |
| 16 | and you think next time I 'll have one a bit bigger , you know , and then , next time one a bit bigger still |
| 17 | When the students had free time she used to like to go down to Camberwell to a flower seller who sold mimosa , which is a kind of wattle . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 19 | Listen if I had enough time I 'll tell you the joke of a life time mate , but I have n't got the time . |
| 20 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 21 | realize this time she 'll |
| 22 | You 've got an order , try and , try and , what you should do is , you see some time we should sit and list them , right , you know you 've got an order form closed |
| 23 | But if his empire fails this time it will join the record books as the largest business collapse in the world . |