Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe next time I bring her some oranges from the best side of the orchard — very sweet , and will do her lot of good . |
| 2 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 3 | ‘ The first time I heard my own voice ? |
| 4 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |
| 5 | Our lessons with show jumper and trainer John Bunyan continued , and every time I learned something more . |
| 6 | And this time I want us both to make an effort to keep things friendly and pleasant . |
| 7 | With the greatest of reluctance , I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector . |
| 8 | It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music . |
| 9 | and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ? |
| 10 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 12 | Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see , and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty , it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all . |
| 13 | ‘ It is time we had our own national identity , ’ he said in Sydney . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 15 | Most of the time we create our own reality quite automatically . |
| 16 | About time we gave it another whirl . |
| 17 | By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example . |
| 18 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 19 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , he 's trying to make himself look useful so the next time he wants his own name in the paper I 'll remember and do his bidding . |