Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 2 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 3 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 4 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 5 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 6 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 7 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 8 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 9 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 10 | Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business ! |
| 11 | I went to see him several times before I went home ’ . |
| 12 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 13 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 14 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 15 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 16 | I did touch them one time you see but of course there was nothing doing he wan me ! |
| 17 | He liked to divide his spare time between the Sargents ' house and the boat , equally indifferent to the ordered comfort of the one and the shabby squalor of the other . |
| 18 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 19 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 20 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 21 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 22 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 25 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 26 | Susan had met her several times , and had always said she 'd like to know her better . |
| 27 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 28 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 29 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 30 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |