Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 2 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 3 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 4 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 5 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 6 | Sometimes , Spiller explained , the grating slid easily , at other times it stuck at an angle . |
| 7 | At other times he looks at the sky , his jaw clenching and unclenching as if working a particularly stubborn wad of chewing gum while the Kansas City Glee Club harmonises solemn music : perhaps he wants to turn it off — but they are unstoppable . |
| 8 | The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) . |
| 9 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
| 10 | The last time I looked at my watch before dozing was a quarter to one . |
| 11 | Interviewed shortly after the experience by an unknown reporter underneath the bed , she gasped : ‘ God , I was so excited , it reminded me of when I was 13 , of the first time I looked at an unwrapped tampon . |
| 12 | My recollection , and I 'm speaking from memory , and I could be wrong , but I think that the last time I looked at lists of the various companies in Telford , where I 'm obviously more concerned , not , well , that 's not to mean I 'm not concerned elsewhere , but I 'm more familiar with respect to them , my recollection is that the more American than anything else on that site . |
| 13 | By three-twenty , which was what the alarm clock by the bedside said the last time I looked at it , I have moved on from thinking about Timmy and Cheryl and her children , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and Cheryl 's children , and Timmy , and Timmy , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and begun to think about Summerchild and Serafin , and Serafin , and Timmy , and Serafin , yes , and Serafin . |
| 14 | I think last time I looked at the hire list , price , price list |
| 15 | The last time I camped at the Forestry Commission site at Beddgelert I recalled — for no good reason , but with an involuntary laugh — a visit with my rotund pal Brian . |
| 16 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 17 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 18 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 19 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 20 | However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me . |
| 21 | I try and stop my crying , but every time I look at her it starts again . |
| 22 | It smears my file , and I feel sick every time I look at it . |
| 23 | Every time I look at her she makes me feel guilty for not doing something about her . ’ |
| 24 | It it seems a n and this when I saw this , I thought , Oh my God , you know , the I I P gets bigger every time I look at something |
| 25 | ‘ You 're so perfect … you even colour like a rose every time I look at you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I shall think of you every time I look at them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Every time I look at it I see some detail for the first time — a tiny insect on a stone , a bird half hidden by foliage , a shadow which yesterday escaped me . |
| 28 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 29 | And every time I look at this card I take in everything on it and er , at a subliminal level . |
| 30 | Every time I look at it I see these bits of chocolate you spilt on it . |