Example sentences of "time i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death . |
| 2 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 3 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 4 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 5 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 6 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 7 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 8 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 9 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 10 | Several times I had seen Gwenellen with that barrier down , but never Aline . |
| 11 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 12 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 13 | What was more , the couple of times I had rung my antenatal teacher for reassurance in late pregnancy after a brief stay in hospital had been free too . |
| 14 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |
| 15 | I found comfort — although at times I had to struggle to do so — from knowing that God is the Father , par excellence , and he therefore knew exactly how I was feeling . |
| 16 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 17 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 18 | After they did this four more times I decided to try to outdo them , and got a sheet of glass ready . |
| 19 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 20 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 21 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 22 | By the time I had received the alarm and gone out , his lordship and his guests had laid my father on his side , a cushion and a rug from the summerhouse serving as pillow and blanket . |
| 23 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 24 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 25 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 26 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 27 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 28 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 29 | That time I had to stifle an ‘ aye , aye ’ . |
| 30 | Each time I had to stop and spend about thirty seconds doing them up , which destroyed the rhythm of the afternoon . |