Example sentences of "[det] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I know what you should do with all that free time you have : acting . |
| 2 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 3 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 4 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 5 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 6 | And this particular time I said , well maybe we should use Durex . |
| 7 | At this particular time he liked to begin the unwinding process . |
| 8 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 9 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 10 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 11 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 12 | A spectacular vindication of the principle that each individual coin spun individually ( He spins one ) is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does . |
| 13 | Personally I think it should be restricted to about four weeks and get more exhibitions in there for wider variety and also there 's a number of er travelling exhibitions around the country that come down North er from up North down to the South to show around here that you can book these any time you want er I talked to somebody organised an exhibition in London and they are quite willing to come to Harlow you book us and we have nothing like this at all . |
| 14 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |
| 15 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 16 | It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break . |
| 17 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
| 18 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 19 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 20 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 21 | All that time I 've kept myself in trim . |
| 22 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 23 | All that time I 've used heroin , dikes , Palfium , you name it . |
| 24 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 25 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 26 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 27 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 28 | All that time I kept thinking , do I love him ? |
| 29 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 30 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |