Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |
| 2 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 3 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 4 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 5 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 6 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 7 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 8 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 9 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 10 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 11 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 12 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 13 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 14 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 15 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 16 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 17 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 18 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 19 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 20 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 21 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 22 | But those I did see seemed to have a harder time . |
| 23 | The Parachute Regiment seemed to have the best time , for it was based in Europe yet each-company spent four months of each year abroad on training attachments . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 25 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 26 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 27 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 28 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 29 | He later admitted deleting a Financial Times file . |
| 30 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |