Example sentences of "time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told yer lots o' times me an' Tommy finished long ago . |
| 2 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 3 | Sometimes when I 'm ready to go out , he 'll say that looks really good , other times nothing . |
| 4 | Good times nor bad times nothing lasts . ’ |
| 5 | At all times someone was on watch for aircraft , and the nearer the coast they were , the slower they tended to travel , to cut down the dust plume . |
| 6 | More men entered the hall by its main door , and several times someone came out beckoning and stood on the steps , issuing orders . |
| 7 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 8 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 9 | The only times my father could be found in his room were first thing in the morning and last thing at night . |
| 10 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 11 | The wheelbarrow , which , when loaded , was three times my weight , toppled , spinning me in circles . |
| 12 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 13 | I once counted how many times my daughter Emma said , ‘ Mummy , I want some orange juice ’ . |
| 14 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 15 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 16 | " These are dangerous times my girl , and we would be perceived as being wealthy . |
| 17 | I do n't know how many times my husband has attempted a three-D backdrop effect before , but this method , with its spot-on diagrams , worked first time . |
| 18 | But there 's still this stigma because we 're not married and I do n't wha , I do n't really know how to explain it but I feel that at times my daughter is being victimized to a certain degree because we 're not married . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 20 | Over the two day event I understand nearly 20,000 people attended the show and at times my car was four or five deep , people of various different ages just trying to get a glimpse or take pictures . |
| 21 | At other times my master , tired by the reticence of Agrippa and the others , continued his absorption with alchemy . |
| 22 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 23 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 24 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 25 | Three times I am struck , alas alas . |
| 26 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 29 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 30 | At various times I have altered my charges on particular areas . |