Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 2 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 3 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 5 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |
| 6 | One time we went to The Last Resort in Fulham Road . |
| 7 | So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot . |
| 8 | I would hope that by the time we come to the next assembly where there is going to be that there will be an opportunity for the churches , er , at home here to take part in preparing for the next assembly . |
| 9 | Originally , they were the property of the crown , but in time they passed to the local aristocrats . |
| 10 | The next time they returned to the windward mark , Paul Cayard tried to shoot the mark as Dennis Conner had done in the defenders ' trials on Tuesday . |
| 11 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 12 | By the time they came to the 16th Chris was flagging , after pulling the heavy trolley for fifteen holes through the wind and rain . |
| 13 | By the time they get to the fourth form there are very few black pupils who are not mingling largely with black pupils . |
| 14 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 15 | So that you can put a brand new car on at eh , A and by the time it gets to the other end it 's literally got rust problems . |
| 16 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 17 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 18 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 19 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 20 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |
| 21 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 22 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 23 | One time he went to the wrong house just after they 'd moved . |
| 24 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 25 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |