Example sentences of "time [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 2 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 3 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 4 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 5 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 6 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 7 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 8 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
| 9 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 10 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 11 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 12 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 13 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 14 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 15 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 16 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 17 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 18 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 19 | All the time she had been in the house . |
| 20 | In the short time she had been in the City , she had been propositioned by a well-dressed lush , witnessed a gangland execution and been pursued through a deserted subway station by a bulky killer . |
| 21 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 22 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 23 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 24 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 25 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 26 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 27 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 28 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 29 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 30 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |