Example sentences of "time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At times I would give him more sedation than other times because of the course of the illness . |
| 32 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 33 | At times I went almost mad , talking gibberish , pulling faces , and singing in mock Latin . |
| 34 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 35 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 36 | Q : Is there any limit to the number of times I can claim ? |
| 37 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |
| 38 | It is plain , from the number of times I have suggested depriving children of TV-viewing time as a sanction , that television is a powerful need in their life , and therefore a potent incentive in the disciplinary repertoire of parents . |
| 39 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The handbook also recommends making a diary of feelings when alone , with one column headed : ‘ Times I was alone and enjoyed it ’ and the other : ‘ Times I was alone and did n't enjoy it . |
| 42 | The handbook also recommends making a diary of feelings when alone , with one column headed : ‘ Times I was alone and enjoyed it ’ and the other : ‘ Times I was alone and did n't enjoy it . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 45 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 46 | And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do . |
| 47 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 48 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Even a fox would bolt from her on occasions , but all the times I have ferreted I have never known my ferrets to bolt a fox . |
| 51 | Think of all the times I have n't come across my next-door neighbours on holiday in Innsbruck , or met my dentist while eating a cream meringue … more coffee ? ’ |
| 52 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 53 | After they did this four more times I decided to try to outdo them , and got a sheet of glass ready . |
| 54 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 55 | I would laugh at myself because sometimes I would pull it off and other times I 'd go to reach over real fast and I 'd just go ‘ Aaaaaargh . ’ |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Dear Guitarist Many times I read in your magazine complaints about service in music shops . |
| 58 | Other times I am mean and nasty , and there are other times when I have n't got complete control of myself but I do want some sort of discipline . |
| 59 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 60 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |