Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 2 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 3 | If you need glasses or contact lenses to reach the eyesight standard , you must wear them each time you drive . |
| 4 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 5 | She went on , ‘ Did you see the way he looked at me that time ? |
| 6 | Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah ! |
| 7 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 8 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 9 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 10 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 11 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 12 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 13 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 14 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 15 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 16 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 17 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 18 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 19 | They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time . |
| 20 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 21 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll have to tell them some time . ’ |
| 23 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 24 | Have actually already covered them another time and I do n't want to get deeper in the stealth now than that , there 's a limit on the time now available this morning . |
| 25 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm disappointed for those under 14s who have n't had a chance to see me this time , but I 'm looking forward to doing a full scale tour probably next year when everyone will have a chance to come along , ’ she added . |
| 27 | The time was 9 a.m. , the sky was clear and blue , and nothing was going to stop me this time . |
| 28 | But do n't fail me this time , Alec . |
| 29 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 30 | Do n't leave me this time . |