Example sentences of "time i have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 2 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 3 | Many times I 've prebaited every night for two weeks or more and caught fish and I 've prebaited with similar amounts . |
| 4 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 5 | By the time I had received the alarm and gone out , his lordship and his guests had laid my father on his side , a cushion and a rug from the summerhouse serving as pillow and blanket . |
| 6 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 7 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 8 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 9 | By the time I had packed the things from the wardrobe and stuffed her toilet things on the top I could barely shut the case . |
| 10 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 11 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 12 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 13 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 14 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 15 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 16 | By the time I had loaded the camera we were already close to the reefs that formed the Devil 's Necklace . |
| 17 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |
| 18 | ‘ Funny , ’ I said , ‘ that 's the first time I 've heard the pips this trip . ’ |
| 19 | This is the third time I 've made the trip in a year . |
| 20 | Norwich manager Dave Stringer said : ‘ This is the second time I 've lost a semi-final and it does n't get any easier to accept . |
| 21 | ‘ By the time I 've done the rest of this week , two Gypsy Barons , and two more Countess Maritzas , I 'll be totally on top of everything . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've run the distance indoors for six or seven years and the object of the race was to hurt myself , ’ said the 28-year-old Lucozade Motherwell club member . |
| 23 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 24 | Every time I 've passed the studio you 've been sitting with your head bent , scribbling away . |
| 25 | ‘ This is the first time I 've had a chance to talk to you on your own , ’ he said thoughtfully , a speculative gleam in his hazel eyes . |
| 26 | The first time I 've had a chance to have a look through this so could I erm |
| 27 | Right okay what I this will be the first time I 've had a look at er a little bit more of your background so erm while I 'm doing that , although you may have already inside information , I I guess you 'd seen the brochure before had you ? |
| 28 | But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with . |
| 29 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 30 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |