Example sentences of "this time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 2 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 3 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |
| 4 | This time I decided I would try a child . |
| 5 | Mr Chapman said : ‘ I have usually got on well with newspaper proprietors , but this time I want to be in charge . ’ |
| 6 | At this time I do not intend relinquishing the deal . |
| 7 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 8 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 9 | By this time I 'd left St. Martins so there was no more grant . |
| 10 | This time I got out of the car and felt my stomach heave again . |
| 11 | RACHEL HUNTER ‘ This time I really mean it — she 's changed my life |
| 12 | This time I have a very different kind of success story to tell you . |
| 13 | All this time I was desperately worried about my family . |
| 14 | By this time I was a nervous wreck and The house in Govan was a shambles . |
| 15 | THIRTY-FIVE years later , as these thoughts of my encounters with men in uniform flashed through my mind , the colonel , who by this time I had succeeded in recognising as another former classmate , said to me : ‘ Come and have a coffee ! ’ |
| 16 | By this time I was shaking and each new thud seemed louder and more terrifying than the last . |
| 17 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 18 | All this time I was trying to make a little money by doing hack-work translations of French and German children 's stories . |
| 19 | By this time I was thoroughly disgusted with these fat cats taking food from the mouths of the sansculottes . |
| 20 | By this time I was upright , physically at least , if not mentally . |
| 21 | I pick up the ‘ Glass Dildo ’ photo again and this time I am struck by Cicciolina 's expressiveness . |
| 22 | That slow laugh came again , but this time I could identify for sure the menace and the mockery in it . |
| 23 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 24 | And during this time I am on the monitor studying the whole thing so that we can make our plans and adjustments for our filming with the real orchestra . |
| 25 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 26 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 27 | This time I 'll get it right . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ This time I 'm onto a … a big thing . |
| 29 | Knowing that I would be returning to work when ( my second baby ) was three months old , I acquired a battery-operated breast pump , as this time I was determined to express at lunch time to keep my supply going . |
| 30 | By this time I was sorely in need of a toilet , and it was her turn to be alarmed when she suddenly grasped the meaning of my frantic gestures . |