Example sentences of "time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 3 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 4 | I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney . |
| 5 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | Of the sense that perhaps everything needs rethinking , that perhaps next time I might get it right . |
| 8 | And Goldberg in the margin : for the whole of the time I knew him he had , stuck on his studio wall , a reproduction of Picasso 's amazing 1943 painting of the mother teaching her child to walk . |
| 9 | At the time I was not even listening properly . |
| 10 | And by the time I got there I was very cold and hungry . |
| 11 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 12 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 13 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 14 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 15 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 16 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 17 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 18 | Last time I went to the hairdresser 's I was so crippled with period pains I drank three instant g & t's on the bus . |
| 19 | How come every time I see you you 're even lovelier than I remember . |
| 20 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |
| 21 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 22 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 23 | ‘ Playing Monopoly last time I saw him . |
| 24 | And all the time I 'm taking further steps away . |
| 25 | It 's the rest of the time I 'm talking about . |
| 26 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 27 | At the time I did n't believe him because I was n't used to hearing the truth from people 's lips , preferring to believe what I thought rather than what I heard . |
| 28 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 29 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 30 | This time I decided I would try a child . |