Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [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 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 3 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 4 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 5 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 12 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 13 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 14 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |
| 15 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 16 | He had done it many times before . |
| 17 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 18 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 19 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 20 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 21 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 22 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 23 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 24 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 25 | His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput . |
| 26 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 27 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 28 | But not before the advance guard had stung him 10 times . |
| 29 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 30 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |