Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 2 | Above all , they want a minister who , having taken a decision , does not constantly alter it every time some pressure is brought to bear . |
| 3 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 4 | Courier had never beaten the German in five previous meetings , never looked like doing so yesterday and said : ‘ He just beats me every time we play . |
| 5 | That might be enough for Leicester might just give them the time . |
| 6 | And the before nine guarantees , just give them the time factor again . |
| 7 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 8 | To protect your bike , always lock it every time you leave it , even if it 's only for a few minutes . |
| 9 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 10 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 11 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 12 | He had sprung out at her from nowhere , not even giving her the time to brace herself against him . |
| 13 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 14 | I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time . |
| 15 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |