Example sentences of "time and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 2 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 3 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 4 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 5 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 6 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 7 | There 's also no pressure to come or go , no one scorns the woman who 's left home five times and who still goes back , who loves her husband and wants to be wanted . |
| 8 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 9 | She tried to bolt out several times and she finally made it . |
| 10 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 11 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 12 | Since then I have flown in another black cessna stunt plane and with my dad 3 times and I also done another circuit with Andy . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's so chaotic at times and I really do n't like to have to dodge between cars with the children . ’ |
| 14 | I 've thought about what happened next a million times and I still do n't know the answer . |
| 15 | not , not even like in the right situation , she 's like just aggressive all the time and nobody particularly gets on with her or likes her because of this . |
| 16 | We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed . |
| 17 | L et 's be honest , the only thing wrong with laces is they 're a pain to do up every time and they sometimes seem to untie themselves mysteriously in the middle of a run . |
| 18 | BKZ consider that this effect of previous history results from the stored elastic energy in the configuration at a previous time and they then assume the stress at time t to be the sum of all the contributions from all . |
| 19 | Davidson , who was probably the closest of Baldwin 's confidants at the time and who also had the advantage of being present at Aix , was equally muddled in his explanations . |
| 20 | I have every sympathy for Rolan Adams 's family at this sad time and I wholeheartedly condemn racial attacks and those who commit or incite racial hatred . |
| 21 | We 're er I was asked a question earlier on today erm how many assignments will I be looking after in any one time and I just said one . |
| 22 | College induction programmes for staff new to FE were in their infancy at that time and I probably felt content in the knowledge of my own ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 23 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 24 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 25 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 26 | I cherished that dolly , kept on altering the face with new stitching from time to time and I still have it in a drawer somewhere . |
| 27 | They say a week in politics is a long time and I now know what they mean . |
| 28 | If you cast on and work widthways the work will grow in no time and you merely need to work until the strip is slightly longer than you need so that you can cut it to fit after sewing it on . |
| 29 | But er basically the message did n't get passed on to him when I left it er the last time and he then did the tour Monday not knowing that we could have been recording it because |
| 30 | We 're looking at honours this time and she just said last night she , she said that 's why I phoned you she said cos I just ca n't believe it . |