Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 2 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 3 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 4 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
| 5 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 6 | Think I played right that time . |
| 7 | As I turned around each time I could see Mark crouching in the snow . |
| 8 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 9 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 10 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 11 | I spent as little time with Syl as I possibly could . |
| 12 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 13 | But so I spent quite some time over that . |
| 14 | she 'll get it by hook or by crook , that 's on the , wonder she 's not in jail though for not paying I heard how many time , how much she 's borrowed over Christmas , for at , for , for er , what they call it as well you know er , what they call it Beverley her daughter |
| 15 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 16 | I went there several times . |
| 17 | I went back twelve times , but soon after my twelfth visit there was another terrible storm . |
| 18 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 19 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 21 | I guess I slipped up this time . ’ |
| 22 | I said perhaps some time afterwards . |
| 23 | Oh I had really good time at my sister 's |
| 24 | I had so much time to look at him I can hardly believe it still , pushing the trolley , standing up in Nibs 's clothes . |
| 25 | I had very little time . |
| 26 | As for the bright lights — I had very little time to enjoy them . |
| 27 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 28 | You made very good time to get here . |
| 29 | I says , well I can tell you what you phoned up three times on t' row for , I says , you 've no money again have you ? |
| 30 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |