Example sentences of "time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 2 | Three times I am struck , alas alas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At various times I have altered my charges on particular areas . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 10 | Most times I do n't mind , but sometimes things get pretty confusing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At times I reckoned we were lucky to get three . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , like all the other times I 've spoken to you , I 'd like to be put through to Mr Roirbak . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Other times I think , ‘ What am I doing this for , I could be sitting at home with my feet up . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The times I have gone shopping , left him babysitting , to arrive home four hours later and it all looks exactly the same or worse . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At times I would give him more sedation than other times because of the course of the illness . |
| 30 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |