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

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1	Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay .
2	I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
3	They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries .
4	Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office .
5	And I mean a long time ! ’
6	I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square
7	Yeah it is , I mean the first time I bought it
8	On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if
9	perhaps she 's mellowed now , I mean the last time she went on with it , about it , was probably over a year ago , but she 's still going on about it definitely a year ago not just
10	I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life .
11	I 'll get a I got a new time for my er twenty five sprint which was sixteen forty four in one length .
12	But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple .
13	I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella .
14	times , I forget the first time I had her .
15	For England I suggest the best time is between late September and the end of November , avoiding Remembrance Sunday .
16	I do n't wan na like that dear , I want the squat time .
17	Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum .
18	‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes .
19	Tell her that I hope the next time I come to stay she wo n't have such a huge fire in the Blue Room . ’
20	It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done .
21	That 's why I yelled the second time .
22	" I know a long time .
23	‘ I know the last time we did but I got over-excited .
24	I , I know the last time and I was reading all me pamphlets that came through and I thought why , you know , but a lot of them I du n no it 's hard to know who to vote for I think
25	I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in .
26	I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace .
27	I spent a long time reading the advertisements .
28	So I spent a long time trying to hide the place .
29	It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room .
30	I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm .