Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 2 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 3 | It was a great learning experience and I needed that time , but I was n't moving in leaps and bounds . |
| 4 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 5 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 6 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |