Example sentences of "time he [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |
| 4 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 5 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 6 | One time he went to the wrong house just after they 'd moved . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |