Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 2 | Pick up a pack or two next time you visit your local branch . |
| 3 | It appears that all this time I too was working flat out , because , in addition to a heavy load of teaching , I was writing articles right and left , as well as tinkering with the political book . |
| 4 | ‘ If I hear that one more time I shall begin to believe it myself ! ’ |
| 5 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 6 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 7 | And this particular time I said , well maybe we should use Durex . |
| 8 | Often we 'd stalk a herd for days on end , and all that time we 'd never even catch a glimpse . |
| 9 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 10 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 11 | And all this time you were recovering and repairing ? |
| 12 | But he said , " Do n't sleep with him " , and all this time I was pregnant . |
| 13 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 14 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 15 | But all that time we were friends . |
| 16 | During the Depression Silver sold china and glass in Fifth Avenue , worked a petrol pump , and sold cigarettes wholesale ; but all this time he was collecting Walt Whitman ; he also studied for a Master 's degree in English at Boston University , which he was awarded in 1941 . |
| 17 | It was the last but one happy time I had in Fulham . |
| 18 | Instead of Greece they went to Wyvis Hall because Adam was broke and Mary was close to broke because that first time it had been so beautiful and peaceful and private there that you could hardly see what advantages Greece would have had over it . |
| 19 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |