Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
2 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
3 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
4 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
5 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
6 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
7 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
8 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
9 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
10 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
11 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
12 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
13 | Eventually , he climbed them a second time , very deliberately . |
14 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
15 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
16 | I hated it the first time . |
17 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
18 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
19 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
20 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
21 | So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room . |
22 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
23 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
24 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
25 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
26 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
27 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
28 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
29 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
30 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |