Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 2 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 3 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 4 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 5 | Probably applied the same time I did . |
| 6 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 7 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 8 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 9 | . Said the first time she came round she did n't look at it , and then , after that she looked really I hope she does n't fall . |
| 10 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 11 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 12 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 13 | We 've had a cu We 've had a first time they 've erm quote at two thousand one hundred and seventy six pounds . |
| 14 | Oh yeah yeah they 've had a good time I think down there |
| 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 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 17 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 18 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 19 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 20 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 21 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 22 | Abbreviations , symbols , units and greek letters should be identified the first time they are used . |
| 23 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 24 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 25 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 26 | When neighbours who entertained him in Knightsbridge spent a rare weekend at Hatherley they were surprised at the switch from newspaper owner to farmer , a switch so thorough that the paper was not mentioned the whole time they were there . |
| 27 | The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach . |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |