Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 2 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 3 | As it stands and we must not forget that UNESCO tried something similar some time ago it would appear that purely political motives are making trade impossible . |
| 4 | I found it invaluable last time I was doing i b you know if , if you say to somebody y you know come beforehand with what you 're doing well , what , where the difficulties are , what the obstacles are . |
| 5 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 6 | And they did n't work so many hours , I worked er I do n't know whether I told you this last time but er I worked , my normal week was sixty six hours , sixty six hours for five shilling . |
| 7 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 8 | That 's what he told me when I interviewed him that second time in Buenos Aires . ’ |
| 9 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 10 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 11 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 12 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 13 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 14 | A much more glorious surprise was achieved on Fylde Flyer by Piggott after he and the rest of the Abernant Stakes field had been kept waiting in a cold , damp wind while Snaadee took his own unconscionable time about wandering down to the start . |
| 15 | Robin Dew equalled his personal best time of 15.4 secs. in the colts 100 metres , taking fourth place , and in the long jump he was also fourth in an excellent 4 metres 15 , the BAF standard for this event and close to his personal best . |
| 16 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 17 | ISABEL WOLFF BELIEVES THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME … |
| 18 | I did n't really think I should advise , except to say , ‘ I got it right last time I did it — I hope you get it right the first time you do it ’ . |
| 19 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 20 | No he you know I did it wrong that time ? |