Example sentences of "i [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
2 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
3 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
4 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
7 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
8 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
9 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
10 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
11 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |