Example sentences of "i [verb] [art] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 He 's certainly made me laugh a few times !
2 mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like
3 I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go .
4 I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in .
5 I swore a few times .
6 ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’
7 I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’
8 I repeated a few times , and it worked a treat — on a window as well .
9 I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping .
10 It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father .
11 I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency .
12 But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere .
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