Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 2 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 3 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 4 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 5 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 6 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 7 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 8 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 9 | Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively , his eyes on hers the entire time . |