Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time i be " in BNC.
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1 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
2 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
3 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
4 | In photographs I 'm already scowling by the time I 'm two : in an Argyle Street photographer 's studio , clutching a rubber doll , dressed in a tailored coat with a velvet collar and an enormous bow in my hair ; or paddling with my parents in the sea , somewhere off the coast of Ireland . |
5 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |