Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 3 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 4 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 5 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 6 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 7 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 8 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 9 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 10 | They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’ |
| 11 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 12 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 13 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 14 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 15 | All the scores for the trials which involved the same time delay were totalled up . |
| 16 | I simply used the extra time to polish them a little . ’ |
| 17 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 18 | First , he changed the dramatic time . |
| 19 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 20 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 21 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 22 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 23 | He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards . |
| 24 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 25 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 26 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 27 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 28 | He complained about the cart , the reins , the horse , the road , the sky , his watch ( which never told the right time ) and his clothing . |
| 29 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 30 | Major success for caddie Andy Prodger and Open champion Nick Faldo came the second time around . |