Example sentences of "time [pers pn] " 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 Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work .
4 Three times I am struck , alas alas .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time .
8 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 .
9 At various times I have altered my charges on particular areas .
10 six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid …
11 Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place .
12 Most times I do n't mind , but sometimes things get pretty confusing .
13 I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me .
14 At times I reckoned we were lucky to get three .
15 At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work .
16 At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid .
17 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 .
18 I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty .
19 In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Well , like all the other times I 've spoken to you , I 'd like to be put through to Mr Roirbak . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Other times I think , ‘ What am I doing this for , I could be sitting at home with my feet up . ’
25 ‘ The times I have gone shopping , left him babysitting , to arrive home four hours later and it all looks exactly the same or worse .
26 The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours .
27 What was more , the couple of times I had rung my antenatal teacher for reassurance in late pregnancy after a brief stay in hospital had been free too .
28 At other times I may be delighted to see them , for if the writing is not going well the writer welcomes any excuse to lay down his pen or turn away from the typewriter .
29 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
30 Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top .
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