StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save .
2	I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days .
3	Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time .
4	Disillusion me and get my sympathy at the same time .
5	I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge .
6	How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ?
7	I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’
8	I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time .
9	Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact .
10	After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water .
11	It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said .
12	I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow .
13	This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’
14	To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree …
15	She was my friend for a long time because we got on really well together .
16	‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride .
17	I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time .
18	I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant .
19	1869 ] and finish my doctorate at the same time . "
20	The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz .
21	‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’
22	This is a game I invented to allow me to get some exercise and amuse my children at the same time .
23	It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable .
24	My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier .
25	One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below .
26	You have n't been out of my thoughts since the last time we made love .
27	However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time .
28	SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days .
29	‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’
30	But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ .