Example sentences of "time [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off .
2 Three times she went one side of a tree when Schmidt went the other , emerging again without breaking her conversation .
3 A couple of times we had big branch and stuff .
4 A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month .
5 At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation .
6 ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold .
7 Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ?
8 She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees .
9 Gawd help us , no wonder the launch was ‘ shrouded ’ in mystery : the last time I saw those shirts they were wrapped around the kneelers in Mitchley Crematorium !
10 ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’
11 ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed .
12 At the time I had little knowledge of dogs .
13 At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend …
14 At the time I had few qualms and found the role-playing exciting ; today I feel I was condescending to the people I deceived and I would not do it again .
15 It 's time I had some fun ,
16 By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee .
17 By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will .
18 At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns .
19 That was the first time I had any idea ! ’
20 But since then the world has gone completely mad and in nineteen ninety , which was the last er time I checked this number , in nineteen ninety federal aid to the states now reaches one hundred billion dollars .
21 Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry .
22 It was still the strongest weapon in my armoury but this time I added two pounds of black treacle to the mixture .
23 ‘ By the time I reached High School — twelve , going on thirteen — I could play the whole Kiss repertoire .
24 But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union .
25 The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first .
26 Last time I played this Strathspey was at a ceilidh held in the village hall at Spean Bridge , attended by villagers and staff from the training centre at Achnacarry .
27 The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ?
28 ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . '
29 The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens .
30 Around the same time I met another paper 's Moscow correspondent , recently arrived from China , whose Mandarin is fluent .
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