Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 2 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 3 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 4 | At other times I went into the much larger , colder Clerecia and watched the glib little gilt pendulum of an old-fashioned wall-clock next to the altar silently swinging my pain away . |
| 5 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 6 | Several times I went to the head of the stairs , my longing to go to him was so strong . |
| 7 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 8 | Literally quarter past eight when the I mean oh god knows how many times I went in there . |
| 9 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 10 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 11 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 13 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 14 | At times I felt like cutting my throat as the depression conjured up by the story spilled over into the auditorium . |
| 15 | In her early scenes , Ms Robertson 's vocalising is so strident that at times I felt like strapping her to a chair and stuffing a wad of cotton in her mouth . |
| 16 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 17 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 18 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 19 | ‘ Many times I start in Italian and finish in English and then the other way round , ’ says Franca . |
| 20 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 21 | Dear Guitarist Many times I read in your magazine complaints about service in music shops . |
| 22 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 23 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 24 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 25 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 26 | Well at times I feel like erm you 're dealing with things that are just totally beyond you and you feel as if you 're sinking and feel totally helpless . |
| 27 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 28 | The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘ cover ’ everything ( and every angle ) through a ‘ completist ’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader . |
| 29 | Since subjects are instructed to read and understand the passage , the varying times which elapse between presentation of one part of a passage and the subject 's pressing of the button give an indication of the amount of time needed to comprehend that part of the passage . |
| 30 | Naturally , if one goes farther back in time the evidence becomes more shaky , but nevertheless there apparently were reversals in late Permian and late Cretaceous times which coincide with the two most important extinction levels . |