Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
| 2 | He was already inside and sitting himself down by the time I spoke . |
| 3 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 4 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 5 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 6 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 7 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 8 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 9 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 10 | Oh , it did , went on for up to the time I retired . |
| 11 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 12 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 13 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 14 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 15 | Be fucked out by the time I |