Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by the time you get to a two years . |
| 2 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 3 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 4 | ‘ I reckon by the time we 're 22 we 'll be doing a folk album , ’ yells Hugo , worryingly . |
| 5 | I reckon by the time we finish this year , we 'll have spent £4,000 on training and equipment for Fiona . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 8 | Yes I suppose by the time she 's here look different . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 11 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 12 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 13 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 14 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 15 | And I think by the time we get |
| 16 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 17 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 18 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 19 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 20 | It does n't matter if I 'm not there but umm you know with the time she 's there and whatever . |
| 21 | I also thinking about what we 're going to do is we would end up sounding like a Foster and Allen song anyway you know not deliberately but I think you know by the time we 'd have have by the time we do the way we 'd be able to do it it would sound like Foster and Allen . |
| 22 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |
| 23 | you know by the time you add all that time up it 's high . |
| 24 | Did you know that there 's like a huge chance that you 'll marry someone you know by the time you 're eighteen ? |
| 25 | She 's consumed by love for Grant and just ca n't grasp the idea that she could be doing something else if he goes out with his mates and , understandably , he resents the way she intrudes on the time he spends with them . ’ |
| 26 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 27 | She longed for the time I 've just got two in my gardeners . |
| 28 | Obviously , you only score the points of any player you buy from the time you get him . |
| 29 | So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot . |
| 30 | The question was and always will be , what shall we do with the time we have saved ? |