Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 2 | I was several times on the phone to John Hayward , who supervised such domestic matters , and I was struck by his almost fierce , perhaps too possessive , loyalty to Eliot . |
| 3 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 4 | I stood there , I could n't say anything , he made me furious , they made me furious and anyhow I was ten times more embarrassed than furious . |
| 5 | " If I was full time , I 'd be taking home £40 a week , " said a Sheffield hotel worker who is also a single parent . |
| 6 | Well , originally er I was involved in er registration , because there , with this very loose connection with the registrar , by now I was full time with the council , as rating assistant and rent collector . |
| 7 | She held one end of a white tape in one hand and measured out a length with the other which was several times the distance from her elbow to the second finger of her hand . |
| 8 | The median acid output ( mmol/h ) to gastrin releasing peptide ( 40 pmol/ kg/h ) in the H pylori positive healthy volunteers was 15.1 ( range 3.3–38.3 ) , which was three times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( median=5.5 , range 1.0–9.0 ) ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 9 | Its mission was to provide a detailed relief map of the surface by using radar to penetrate the atmosphere , which was 90 times thicker than the Earth 's atmosphere and had a temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 10 | Conversely , the reverse pattern was found for single women who had given birth who were five times more likely to be local authority tenants rather than owner-occupiers . |
| 11 | Remember who you were this time last year . |
| 12 | Did you do that before you were full time ? |
| 13 | He says , Well you never managed it when you were full time anyway . . |
| 14 | You seem quite tired and nervy ; not at all the way you were last time : very trim and self-contained . |
| 15 | She was five times French Champion , also the Canadian Champion and an English International from 1910–1928 , winning 29 out of 33 matches . |
| 16 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 17 | McKitten , who was four times over the drink limit , was banned for three years and fined £350 . |
| 18 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 19 | We were this time last year , and we ve got a better squad this time around ( and indeed than that which won the league ) . |
| 20 | Instead , local legislation in various local authority areas imposed such obligations , and there were varying time limits as to flow soon before the date of the proposed procession notice was required . |
| 21 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 22 | Madam Deputy Speaker , nineteen eighty nine there were five times more pages of legislation than in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 23 | I think she has a fair point , even if there were better times in this home and altogether better times in other homes . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 25 | There was a stone in the windswept graveyard that bore her name , there were good times around the corner . |
| 26 | There were other times in Silesia . |
| 27 | But there were other times that he was whipped while standing up . |
| 28 | But there were other times that he was whipped while standing up . |
| 29 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
| 30 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were many times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |