Example sentences of "to [pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 2 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 3 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 4 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 6 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 8 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 9 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 10 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 11 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |