Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 3 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 4 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 5 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 6 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 7 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 8 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 9 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 10 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 11 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 12 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 13 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 14 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 15 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 16 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 17 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 18 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 19 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 20 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 21 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 22 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 23 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 24 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 25 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 26 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 27 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 28 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 29 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 30 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |