Example sentences of "time i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of all the , all the times I trudged up here with a pushchair to get Robert to playgroup and to school . |
| 2 | But in the depth of Winter say , er from November up to after Christmas , there were very very few things you could notice and erm goodness knows how many times I fell back on he was one of the last persons to be churning with horsepower . |
| 3 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 4 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 5 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 6 | I must say Oliver ordered some pretty filthy wines those times I went out with him . |
| 7 | At times I went almost mad , talking gibberish , pulling faces , and singing in mock Latin . |
| 8 | There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home . |
| 9 | During Nigel 's second period in hospital , in between the times I spent there , I set about arranging his funeral . |
| 10 | At times I wondered why I had ever embarked upon my personal research study . |
| 11 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 12 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 13 | With Shakespeare , almost every time I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 14 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 15 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 16 | For the first time I saw not a vague pink blob but an exquisite , fragile , jewel-like object . |
| 17 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
| 18 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 19 | By that time I had already established because I did the documentary stuff , I 'd already established the ownership of the house and the house began life as the town house of a monastery called Priory . |
| 20 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 21 | But at the time I had not realised what it was . |
| 22 | The surprise and shock registered yet again on Ewen 's face were so real that even I , if this time I had not known better , would have thought them genuine . |
| 23 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
| 24 | At that time I had not done the calculations to find out how much would actually be emitted . |
| 25 | ( At the time I had not a clue what he was talking about but , in hindsight , he was , of course , referring to Boleyn 's ascendancy over Fat Henry and Wolsey falling like a star from the sky of royal preferment . ) |
| 26 | I ca n't remember last time I had best butter . |
| 27 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 28 | I remembered now another give-away sound which at the time I had n't noticed — a click on the line at the beginning of my conversation with the woman . |
| 29 | He was his own father down there and it was that night again when Francis said to me , ‘ Do n't go , ’ and this time I had n't . |
| 30 | First time I had n't spent Christmas with Vicki I think since they were married . |