Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 2 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 3 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 4 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 5 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 6 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 8 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 9 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 10 | I hated it the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 14 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 15 | I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time |
| 16 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 17 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 18 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 19 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 20 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 21 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 22 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 23 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 24 | When she did it the second time . |
| 25 | All of us did it the whole time . |
| 26 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 27 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 28 | had it the last time . |
| 29 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 30 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |