Example sentences of "time and i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
2 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
3 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
4 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
5 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
6 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
7 | But that 's what I use , CNN , I read the New York Times and I listen to the BBC , even in America , for a different perspective . |
8 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
9 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
10 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
11 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
12 | Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ? |
13 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
14 | I have driven along that road to Scotland many times and I know that beyond my hon. Friend 's constituency it is not so good . |
15 | ‘ We took machines apart several times and I learned a lot about the controls and the electrical cabinet . |
16 | Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing . |
17 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
18 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
19 | he 's been both times and I have n't . |
20 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
21 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
22 | I mean I remember when I was at the New York Times and I wanted to use Cheltenham wide for a headline , Cheltenham bold well sort of bold wide , but it 's just called Cheltenham wide in the book , and because Cheltenham was always part of the New York Times library , whatever you call it , in the composing room . |
23 | There 's also want more money to cheapest in the country and I say good and I hope we can fit it in this budget time and I hope we all support this , for this . |
24 | ‘ We remain ready for talks at any time and I hope the Chinese side will be prepared to settle quickly on the arrangements for such talks , ’ Mr Hurd said . |
25 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
26 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
27 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
28 | I could learn procedures and facts for a short time and I knew how to regurgitate them for examinations . |
29 | It was merely a matter of time and I knew it . |
30 | ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it . |