Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 2 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 3 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 4 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 5 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 6 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 7 | ‘ The demonstrations were mostly started by first- and second-year students ’ , I was told several times , ‘ but the government are punishing the graduates . |
| 8 | I was lucky , I could afford to do it because I was working full time as a youth training officer . |
| 9 | I was making good time when my eye was caught by a small , wooden sign , on which was written , ‘ Harristown Dolmen ’ . |
| 10 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 11 | She was stabbed three times , but pursued the man for 50 yards , calling for help on her radio , before she collapsed . |
| 12 | She was stabbed 15 times with scissors . |
| 13 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 14 | She was to return four times , each time learning more about the ecology and the people . |
| 15 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |
| 16 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 17 | She was awakened some time later by the sound of Fen 's voice and his hand briefly shaking her by the shoulder . |
| 18 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 19 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 20 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 21 | where my mum and dad live it 's not that bad an area yet they were burgled four times and that they get |
| 22 | No they 've been banned from taking them in in case they clobbered anyone with them you see oh they were banned some time ago , as were flags they used to carry flags at one time and rattles , but er they do n't let you take anything in . |
| 23 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 24 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 25 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 26 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 27 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |
| 28 | It was given this time under the English title of the music , Children 's Corner , and de Valois insisted on the ballet 's being redesigned . |
| 29 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 30 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |