Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you understand me ? ’ he asked a second time . |
| 3 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 4 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
| 5 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 6 | First , he changed the dramatic time . |
| 7 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 8 | He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards . |
| 9 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 10 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 11 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , for goodness ’ sake ! ’ he squeaked the third time it happened . |
| 13 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 14 | He waits a long time , checking his watch often . |
| 15 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 16 | He spent a long time over these calculations and they appeared to soothe him . |
| 17 | He spent a long time with her , talking , and making her feel better when she was crying and that .. |
| 18 | He spent a long time listening , and then said , ‘ You know , George Dionisovich , you 've fallen into to the hands of the Mafia . |
| 19 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 20 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 21 | He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 . |
| 22 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |
| 23 | Alejandro was so staggered by Fantasma 's progress that he decided to waive his prejudice against greys ; not so much that he was prepared to get on her back , but he spent a considerable time wondering how he could flog Fantasma to a rich patron without them finding out how vicious and unmanageable the mare could be when she was away from Luke . |
| 24 | He began a third time with Abraham and the miracle of his son Isaac . |
| 25 | Born in Scotland he started as a young full-back at Park Head … then after 200 games with Carlisle … he hit the big time with Spurs … that 's when he became pals with Hoddle … at 29 his English career was wrecked by injury … he helped pioneer soccer in the states and then came back home again to coach … |
| 26 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 27 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 28 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 29 | He died a short time later . |
| 30 | Christopher Wood 's last New York exhibition on this theme was held at the Shepherd in 1985 and he felt the present time to be right for another one , particularly given the slackness of the London market at present . |