Example sentences of "the time [pron] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know . |
| 5 | Yeah , I just say get a , a meal of a fish it 's gon na cost you a fiver then ai n't it , come down on by the time you 've got a two , three of them . |
| 6 | By the time you 've bought a Warlord , a Battle Standard Bearer , Bosses for your units , and Big Bosses for vulnerable Goblin units , plus magic weapons and armour for the most important characters , the chances are you wo n't have many points left . |
| 7 | Mind , by the time you 'd shared a Creme Egg between those three and their older brother |
| 8 | I think all the time you going to have a baby . |
| 9 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 10 | By the time he had developed a strong 40-minute routine , he was invited to do a solo spot on Channel 4 's Friday Night Live . |
| 11 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 12 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 13 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 14 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 15 | Unem the level of unemployment is subsumed between , well , within the time it takes to get a job , and also the probability of , of getting a job . |
| 16 | The execution time of a RISC cycle is given by the time it takes to read a register , perform an ALU operation , and store the result back into a register . |
| 17 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |