Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | With a pang , he remembered the last time he had eaten fish and chips , the time he had met Irene Pitt . |
| 32 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 33 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |
| 34 | He flipped a third time . |
| 35 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 36 | He had no spare time for anything else , and laments the fact that he had so very little time for his studies . |
| 37 | ‘ He had a fantastic time . |
| 38 | Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits . |
| 39 | He had a good time , said he really enjoyed it and would like to go again , and I had all the washing done for me — he did n't bring anything home dirty except the previous day 's clothes . |
| 40 | And he had a good time with the assembled newshounds , especially when one got him off and running with a question about how he felt about winning a national championship . |
| 41 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 42 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 43 | There was one by the newsstand sometimes , scraping at a violin , but he had a tough time competing with the unofficial buskers who had loud guitars and stronger voices . |
| 44 | He had a fine time on the subcontinent , taking a total of 175 wickets over the two visits . |
| 45 | He had a difficult time , having largely to rebuild the fleet in a period when every shipyard had an order book as long as your arm . |
| 46 | Sue Owen , director of nursing , said : ‘ He had a short time away with his consultant 's permission . |
| 47 | He had a lean time , claiming only two wickets altogether in Brisbane and the two Sydney Tests . |
| 48 | Council clerk Audrey Twyman said : ‘ He had a lovely time , doing everything but what we wanted him to do . |
| 49 | He had a happy time in the town . |
| 50 | Grayling found that he had a hard time getting people to take him seriously . |
| 51 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |
| 52 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |
| 53 | There he was , Prince Nicolo Sabatini , standing at the rear of the showroom , completely alone , his arms folded over his chest , watching her exactly as he had the first time she 'd set eyes on him , with such a fierce blend of desire and anger that her heart leaped into her throat . |
| 54 | You know he sounded a long time when he was saying it . |
| 55 | He waited a long time , and when the young doctor finally came out , it was almost dark . |
| 56 | He waited a long time for her response . |
| 57 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 58 | He said the last time I went out he said was December the fifteenth , I said , and I 'll tell you something else , that was the last time I went out . |
| 59 | ‘ Just iced water , thanks , ’ he said the next time she screwed up enough nerve to go back to his table . |
| 60 | The world champion elect , seeking his first victory in Australia in his final Formula One race before switching to Indycar racing in the United States next year , dominated the session as he clocked a best time of one minute 13.732 seconds on the 3.78km track in his Williams Renault car . |