Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case of bread and circuses , and it 's about time someone said it for the rave generation . |
| 2 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 3 | the time I saw her in the police station , she looked she 'd got jeans on |
| 4 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 5 | This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel . |
| 6 | The first time I see her in the police station , no , will you pack up please , now pack it up ! |
| 7 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 8 | Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs . |
| 9 | The bullets were no longer coming close , however , and by the time she pulled herself into the shadow of the side of the opening , they were chipping the rock several feet away . |
| 10 | It will probably cost the bridesmaid a lot more in back pain by the time she distributes them round the hall . |
| 11 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's time you took yourself off the market , ’ she said . |
| 13 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 14 | Right I 'll tell you now , see next time you punch me in the mouth |
| 15 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 16 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 17 | Another aim might be to see how far upwind you can sail in ten minutes , trying to beat it each time you do it in the future . |
| 18 | . Shirl , any time you want me in the team . |
| 19 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 20 | By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started . |
| 21 | Most of the time we console ourselves with the knowledge that we are ‘ good enough ’ , loving parents . |
| 22 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 23 | Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other |
| 24 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 25 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 26 | It 's also a colour of cold — and we have n't had much of a summer this year — but at the same time it reminds me of the warmth and tranquillity of a Claude Lorrain . |
| 27 | At the time it shocked me to the core . |
| 28 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 29 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 30 | This time he kissed her on the lips . |