Example sentences of "time i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 2 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The first time I 've had a chance to have a look through this so could I erm |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with . |
| 11 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , fishing is my hobby , but it 's the first time I 've caught a squirrel . |
| 14 | the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell |
| 15 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 16 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 17 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 18 | Another 48 Hours was done out of fear because Harlem Nights was the first time I 'd had a movie that flopped . |
| 19 | I have tried everywhere in the Legion , but every time I have hit a brick wall . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 22 | Indeed , this is the first time I have found a photographer reveal the position he was in when he took a particularly impressive shot of slime mould , for example . |
| 23 | I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep . |
| 24 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 25 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |