Findings:
- There was a time when I was a better person
- Was There a Time
- There was a time before
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- There were times better than this
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- I was there
- There is no time paradox
- Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
- Most of the time I just sit there, waiting.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- A Better Place, A Better Time
- unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
- Dawn was a lucky time to give birth
- Music was better in the old days
- There is a different time scale
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- There's a time and a place
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- Better luck next time
- There Once Was a Farmer
- mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- I was a teenage time traveling combat waitress
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"
- There was no one waiting for me...
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- Let there be another next time
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- No shit, there I was
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- there's a time and place for mercy
- Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
- Some time when I was a teenager
- God was in the west too, at one time.
- She was locked in time
- His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
- The pros and cons of leaving your computer on
- The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
- Last time I was in Chicago I broke my ass
- I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
- Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There was a rose that faded young
- There is probably a better explanation than the insidious hand of Big Stall
- There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There are times when they seem to be right
- I was a homeless bum
- Where's the kaboom?
- in the end it was better that we were apart
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Before you, there was me
- There Was No Leak
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- Once there was a way...
- There was a cold day
- His version was better
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
- If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
- A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- Is there a kind of information you're better off not having?
- When I was young Time had no wings
- Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
- I lived in interesting times, came to the attention of those in power, and found what I was looking for.
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- all other times are better than 6 am
- I was put on hold for time to gnaw me raw.
- At that time I was taken up with alchemy
- That Time Zeph Was A Criminal
- for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
- There's no better mirror than a child
- the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a schoolbook in County Derry
- That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
- there's a first time for everything
- Why is "Being There" Considered Better?
- There was once a Man
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
- There was an old lady
- Last year was always better
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There will be time
- There was a young lady of Riga
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- There was a land where lived no violets
- Was it ever there?
- There once was a girl named Irene
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
- I remember, there was one
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- and there was this girl
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
- There has to be a better way to make human beings
- There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
- My hacked iPhone was better
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- One hour there was sunlight
- A knock there was upon the door
- There Was A Friend
- There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
- Somewhere there is a syphilitic prostitute who is doing time
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a baby in China
- There was a little girl
- There was always the blue of you
- There suddenly did not seem time enough for everything.
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- time better spent (user)
- Before Time Was
- The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- The first time I knew I was different
- The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
- there's not much time, the blush in the sky begins to fade
- There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
- It was better before they came
- Better Living Through Chemistry
- Why Cucumbers are Better than Men
- Much better than a piss test
- I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
- It's better to be hated than ignored
- Better in the original
- The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
- It doesn't get any better than this
- I can degrade myself better than you can
- Something Even Better
- How do we know dog biscuits are "now better tasting!"?
- You had better...!!!
- Nothing's better than rocking out
- Is a crush better than a relationship?
- Making a Better Plastic Cup
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