Example sentences of "time [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 2 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
| 3 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |
| 4 | I was in the control area with Mala at the time so I had to suffer through it . |
| 5 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 6 | With Shakespeare almost every time that I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 7 | Every time that I passed the spot , over the next year or two , I glanced quickly at the building , then scooted past . |
| 8 | The ride started and each time that I passed Mum I waved . |
| 9 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 10 | Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . " |
| 11 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 12 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 13 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
| 14 | So we noted last time that I booked the library in Bishop 's Stortford for two periods , this year for display , we 've booked the er street collection in Bishop 's Stortford for July , now are there any other dates we need to mention . |
| 15 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 16 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 17 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 18 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 19 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 20 | It was the first time that I had openly , assertively hitched . |
| 21 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 22 | It was the first time that I had experienced the midnight sun . |
| 23 | It was the first time that I had ever seen the inside of a police cell . |
| 24 | It was the first time that I had been picked to run in an individual event against the USA , and I was looking forward to it . |
| 25 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 26 | I could n't summon up a double bass in the short time that I had this rig , which was a shame since , like Hughes & Kettner 's BassBase , the unit is flexible enough to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the instrument , the primary reason for the onboard notch filter . |
| 27 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 28 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 29 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 30 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |