Example sentences of "time [pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 2 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 3 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 4 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 5 | Oh good , er , That 's the first time I 've heard religious sort of erm I better not say what I was going to say . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , dear fellow , if I had a lira for every time I 've heard that story … well … ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ It 's the second time I 've suffered this sort of problem . |
| 8 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 9 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 10 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 11 | but if I come back in night time I have to put that light on and it 's empty |
| 12 | It was the first time she had expressed any sympathy for the Daily Mirror pensioners . |
| 13 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 14 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 15 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 16 | Well by the time she 's finished this course she should be confident to hold on to things in the water , you know |
| 17 | Perform well whatever assignments you have , have you noticed the Watchtower that were studying today , we 've all got it with you I think , just turn to page twenty six turn to page twenty two , you 'll see what it 's about , it 's about a brother Roy , who has always advocated sticking close to Jehovah 's organization , guide to organization , give you a life story , and it 's quite interesting reading , and again it 's a test of your alertness , your vigilance , whether or not your spirits be awake or not , is this the first time you 've seen that article ? |
| 18 | ‘ Now look here , ’ I/she said , ‘ this is the second time you 've disrupted this evening . |
| 19 | Is that the first time you 've done that song ? |
| 20 | So by the time you 've finished that mega-report for the MD on the 6:30 from Newark , you need some way of shifting the hulking brute from laptop to desktop that does n't involve circular bits of plastic . |
| 21 | ‘ In my own time we 've lost four cham always do so well before losing our way in the second half . |
| 22 | By the time we had cossetted one floor Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke 's legs were criss-crossed by lines resembling a noughts and crosses grid , and my jeans , saturated with a witch 's brew of chemicals , were gathering dust and fluff like a thieving magpie . |
| 23 | And that , in spite of the short time we have known each other , would not be true … ’ |
| 24 | Let us not forget the experience of the past 10 years , during which time we have had more experience of guillotine motions than in the whole of the previous history of Parliament . |
| 25 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 26 | If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance . |
| 27 | Usually , by the time they have lost enough weight , they are totally fatigued ! |
| 28 | It was the first and last time they have had such privacy and they returned to Balmoral to join the Royal Family for their traditional September break , tanned , relaxed and obviously very much in love . |
| 29 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 30 | I 'm ve I this is the first time it 's happened this way round that anybody 's got That 's the most subtle clue and somebody 's spotted it . |