Example sentences of "time [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold . |
| 2 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 3 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 4 | Gawd help us , no wonder the launch was ‘ shrouded ’ in mystery : the last time I saw those shirts they were wrapped around the kneelers in Mitchley Crematorium ! |
| 5 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 7 | At the time I had little knowledge of dogs . |
| 8 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 9 | At the time I had few qualms and found the role-playing exciting ; today I feel I was condescending to the people I deceived and I would not do it again . |
| 10 | It 's time I had some fun , |
| 11 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 12 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 13 | At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns . |
| 14 | That was the first time I had any idea ! ’ |
| 15 | But since then the world has gone completely mad and in nineteen ninety , which was the last er time I checked this number , in nineteen ninety federal aid to the states now reaches one hundred billion dollars . |
| 16 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 17 | It was still the strongest weapon in my armoury but this time I added two pounds of black treacle to the mixture . |
| 18 | ‘ By the time I reached High School — twelve , going on thirteen — I could play the whole Kiss repertoire . |
| 19 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 20 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
| 21 | Last time I played this Strathspey was at a ceilidh held in the village hall at Spean Bridge , attended by villagers and staff from the training centre at Achnacarry . |
| 22 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 23 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 24 | The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens . |
| 25 | Around the same time I met another paper 's Moscow correspondent , recently arrived from China , whose Mandarin is fluent . |
| 26 | At the same time I got some pleasure out of learning Kennedy 's Latin Primer off by heart . |
| 27 | At the same time I noticed that A. aluaudi , H . |
| 28 | It 's about time I hoovered that dump . |
| 29 | And by the time I finished that job , I worked for about two month and I were four hundred pound in rent arrears . |
| 30 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |