Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [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 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 3 | I did touch them one time you see but of course there was nothing doing he wan me ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
| 7 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 8 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 9 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 10 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 11 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 12 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 13 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 14 | Miss Ross said her sister had kept a personal protection gun at home previously but had returned it some time ago to the Maze for safekeeping . |
| 15 | And after that , wherever you go it must be far away because , as Father said , he missed killing him this time , but he wo n't the next . |