Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 2 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 3 | To report from the front , there is now a gadget that can be fitted to your refrigerator that makes a noise like a pig every time the door is opened . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're so perfect … you even colour like a rose every time I look at you . ’ |
| 5 | I cried like a baby every time I tried to close my eyes . |
| 6 | Obviously there are no simple solutions to a difficult relationship with a demanding parent , but it can often be kept ticking over on a mixture of kindness and firmness and a refusal on your part to come out of your corner for a fight every time she chooses to ring the bell . |
| 7 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 8 | But I know from personal experience that gardens can get a bit messy — you ca n't take a dog for a walk every time it wants to ‘ go ’ , even with the best will in the world . |
| 9 | But if , instead of jumping you walked , one step at a time , and were given one small coin as a reward every time you happened to take a step in the right direction , you would reach the scorpion in a very short time . |
| 10 | As soon as you start applying a tourniquet then write on your arm or leg with a pen the time that applications started . |
| 11 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
| 12 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 13 | She intended to reward him with sips of his favourite ‘ pop ’ from a mug every time he managed to get the spoon to his mouth . |
| 14 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 15 | Each had had 15 or 20 tequilas in a 50p a time promotion at the now closed Pier 19 bar above the Blue Boar pub in the city . |
| 16 | She was now in a state every time she looked at Alain . |
| 17 | Indeed as Dottrens noticed in his world survey of primary curriculum in 1962 there seems to be a bit more of everything included in a curriculum every time it is revised — a trend which is likely to be reinforced whenever syllabuses are designed by committees rather than individuals . |
| 18 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 19 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 20 | As you can see we 've got three children who will be going to the school and I do n't want them to think they have to get in a car every time they travel anywhere . |
| 21 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 22 | Since the first of these measures runs counter to the purposes of binding , it can not be considered acceptable ; it is suggested , therefore , that , wherever possible , current procedures for channelling material to and through the bindery be investigated , with a view to reducing to a minimum the time which such items spend off the shelf . |
| 23 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 24 | ‘ I come twice a week at a pound a time , so that 's thirteen , say , and then there 's all the times I 've come with me cans . |
| 25 | In common with most of his contemporaries paying such rates , he was charged twice a year from 1783 onwards at a penny a time , though even he was excused in 1784 on grounds of poverty . |