Example sentences of "i [verb] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there . |
| 2 | I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases . |
| 3 | I lost count of time as The Butcher banged away and the girl hung on grimly to my jerking skull . |
| 4 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 5 | I 've no idea , I lost count of time . |
| 6 | ‘ I lost track of time , ’ Faye admitted ruefully . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Tom , I lost track of time , ’ Faye said again . |
| 8 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 9 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 10 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 11 | I spend hours of time with my engineers , briefing , de-briefing , briefing again . |
| 12 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |