Example sentences of "[det] [adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 They had hurt each other once and this second time around they were so tentative .
2 The main time may well be from harvest through to April the following year , but netting is in fact selective because the size of the mesh allows small rabbits to escape — to be netted some other time when they have grown bigger .
3 you know by the time you add all that time up it 's high .
4 Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’
5 She recalled that fatal time when she had wept because she knew she had diminished Jack , had demoted him , had cracked the perfect image , had lodged in her mind that little black poisonous atom .
6 He and Bouilhet play at imagining themselves old men , patients in some hospice for incurables : ancients who sweep the streets and babble to one another of that happy time when they were both thirty and walked all the way to La Roche-Guyon .
7 But there will always be pockets at any one time where we ca n't give as an equally good service as we would like .
8 Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own .
9 I 've offered , ’ she pointed out , then added , ‘ Perhaps it would help to make up for that other time when I refused to help . ’
10 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
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