Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 He 's worried about them the whole time .
2 In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice !
3 I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me .
4 I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’
5 ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said .
6 He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes .
7 The daughters-in-law made it clear that Mrs J. had given all of them a hard time over the years .
8 She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them .
9 But the needs of his body , so long suppressed , caused him to avail himself of her a second time , and towards the end he felt himself impregnate her .
10 During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes .
11 I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden .
12 I did n't think much of it the first time .
13 ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her .
14 When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same .
15 She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle .
16 After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more .
17 I should have been here for you a long time ago .
18 The danger arises if you happen to arrive at what was for you a distressing time and there is no one there to help you deal with it in the way I shall describe in Chapter 2 .
19 He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time .
20 I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’
21 Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time .
22 ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime .
23 Have a word with them the next time you 're in
24 I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford .
25 You have been with her a long time . ’
26 I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me !
27 ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying .
28 Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time .
29 Yet with Rosemary still refusing to go out with Travis and Travis falling more and more in love with her the whole time , there was no way he could stay away .
30 It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business .
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