Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 2 | At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk . |
| 3 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 4 | But what I 'll do is , if tomorrow I get time I 'll have a look in erm Top Shop . |
| 5 | But in time I 'll have a home , my daughter will be back with me , and I 'll be able to live as normal a life as anyone else . |
| 6 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 7 | ‘ I just know that next time I can do a lot better , ’ she confesses . |
| 8 | It 's the only time I can get a break from my family . |
| 9 | " Now , every time you lie to me or prove difficult , we 're going to break a finger , and then next time you 'll lose a tooth — I promise you . |
| 10 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 11 | When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar . |
| 12 | At that time you will receive a visit from a man . |
| 13 | All in good time you will have a bed partner and let me tell you , you will care for her far more than you ever could for this one . |
| 14 | That 's the only time you can view a property . |
| 15 | Any other time you can leave a message on the answerphone and someone will call you back . |
| 16 | Yeah , yeah I wished we did like them cos many a time you can make a meal |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it . |
| 18 | It is the only time you can tee a ball up where you like ( within the limits of the teeing area ) , and as high as you like . |
| 19 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 20 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 21 | Well you could never , you could never rely on shipment , cos one time you 'd get a lot of shipment and the next time you might be six weeks and get no shipment , so who 's gon na pay them their money ? |
| 22 | and then when you go on to book and we 'll if we get through this in time we 'll have a look at book two as well . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll dump our things at the hotel , ’ Ward said , ‘ and if there 's time we 'll have a look round . ’ |
| 24 | A canvass , cos I was a block steward , I used to collect the , the stubs and at election time we would do a canvass of our own block . |
| 25 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |
| 26 | He added that " at the same time we will send a delegation in the opposite direction , to Kuwait as well as to members of the coalition , the USA and the European Communities " . |
| 27 | Next time we will have a basis on which to request a meeting , in advance — trying to arrange meetings on the spot becomes a nightmare of negotiating other prescheduled appointments . |
| 28 | I hope that next time we will have a woman in a major role . |
| 29 | Then the monstrous green body exploded like a balloon of filth , spattering the walls of the cavern and the cages of the cowering young prisoners — the last time he/she would set a mark upon them . |
| 30 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |