Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half nine it finishes so we 're supposed to be back by tennish I should think by the time we 're finished . |
| 2 | Mm it 'll be about five to half past when he leaves I should think by the time he 's cleared up . |
| 3 | I 'll start from the time that darkness came on . |
| 4 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 5 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 6 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 7 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |