Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | He 's said it about three times , on last year 's Channel 4 series Paul Merton The Series , and he grafted it , unnaturally , onto his screen persona very much as an anti-catchphrase , as a joke joke . |
| 3 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |
| 4 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 5 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 6 | er I mean I know it 's a bit messy at the moment , I ai n't washed it since last time you see ! |
| 7 | ‘ Well I never , ’ thought Tom , ‘ The Captain really seems to have pulled it off this time ! ’ |
| 8 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 9 | A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) . |
| 10 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 11 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |