Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time I went to prison I was nineteen . |
| 2 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 3 | By the time I got to Python I was getting £240 a week . |
| 4 | The next time she returned to consciousness she discovered that the whole right side of her face was numb , and that was all she registered . |
| 5 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 6 | Every time we went to court he would erm take out a new loan , he took out a loan to take his wife to Bermuda , that was taken into account . |
| 7 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 8 | Buds are that big , every time he went to thing he snapped it off . |