Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 2 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 3 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 4 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 5 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 6 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |
| 7 | Only one decision was made by the time I reached London — I was going to buy nothing blue , and I was going to let my hair grow long . |
| 8 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 9 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 10 | Like Nadia , I married young — at 19 — and was divorced by the time I 'd reached my mid-20s . |
| 11 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 12 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 13 | The other diner was plainly downstairs in the bar and did not appear during the whole of the lunchtime and had still not appeared by the time I had finished and paid my bill . |
| 14 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 15 | Well , I 'd done that there , and that had gone by the time I went to the hospital and I thought brilliant ! |
| 16 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’ |
| 17 | That lasted about 15 minutes and the pain had gone by the time I had got to hospital , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 19 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 20 | I could hardly breathe by the time I got there ; my chest felt as if it was bursting and my throat was clenched tight and my legs were quivering again . |
| 21 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 22 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 23 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |