Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lost count of time as The Butcher banged away and the girl hung on grimly to my jerking skull . |
| 2 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 3 | I 've no idea , I lost count of time . |
| 4 | ‘ I lost track of time , ’ Faye admitted ruefully . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Tom , I lost track of time , ’ Faye said again . |
| 6 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 7 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 8 | He also said he knew she took cocaine from time to time . |
| 9 | The scope of their kinship networks is smaller , but just as significant because they provide help in times of hardship . |
| 10 | All respondents acknowledged they owed service in times of war ; rather less than half were obliged to provide regular castle-guard . |
| 11 | They lost concentration at times with a big lead behind them . |
| 12 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |
| 13 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 14 | Because it frees performance from time , assembling it bit by bit , it encourages demystified production : ‘ Tape runs forwards , backwards and at many speeds . |
| 15 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 16 | The minister said he felt disorientated , the blinds were drawn , and he lost track of time . |
| 17 | Walking and walking until he lost track of time , he felt that this was the entire world , it was comprised of nothing else , just the infinite earth and infinite sky . |
| 18 | ‘ The lil ol boy turned up a bit quick : he come jus in time to hev a slice of his mother 's wedding cake . ’ |