Example sentences of "times [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 2 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 3 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 4 | She was continuously moulting as she grew her feathers , and however many times I hoovered I could never get it all . |
| 5 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 7 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 8 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | At times I reckoned we were lucky to get three . |
| 11 | Six or seven years in the course of which her infatuation with him , in spite of the rare times she saw him , had grown increasingly severe . |
| 12 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 13 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 14 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 15 | So strong was the feeling that several times she thought she caught the tail-end of a movement as they passed by several blackened stumps and she turned sharply , expecting to see something leering evilly at them , but there was nothing . |
| 16 | Several times she thought she would vomit , but nothing came . |
| 17 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 18 | At times she believed she could make her hard man into a piece of putty , but not when he spoke of duty . |
| 19 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 20 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 21 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 22 | Sometimes his concern with changing the way she looked amused Victoria , but at other times she found it upsetting . |
| 23 | Once , twice , three times she did it , each time picking up the card and examining it . |
| 24 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 25 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 26 | At times they imagined they were a disembarked army and went to Santa Cruz or Machico , which they bombarded and took . |
| 27 | Many times they asked me for them by title . |
| 28 | They were full and sensuous like a woman 's , though at times they gave him a hint of cruelty . |
| 29 | An Italian scholar has tried to trace their influence on Paul VI by noting how many times he quoted them . |
| 30 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |