Example sentences of "time [pron] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the
2 Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night .
3 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
4 However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether .
5 Naturally , if one goes farther back in time the evidence becomes more shaky , but nevertheless there apparently were reversals in late Permian and late Cretaceous times which coincide with the two most important extinction levels .
6 But then er in recent times she stay in the farm so
7 Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the
8 Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) .
9 At times they veer towards the kind of sulk-metal that dodgy punk bands used to come up with when the guitarist was a closet Jimmy Page buff .
10 And things have gone on since then and the band still plays , er they have not the easiest task of finding people , because of change and so on , but er their families and friends and , and even some of the youngsters that learn at school that , a fireman 's friends and relatives have joined the band and they play out in the parks and they , and they play in the spar pavilion and they , they provide concerts for people , and Christmas times they play in the town .
11 At other times they retreat into the blue distance .
12 I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money .
13 EVERY time I go to the Post Office , there 's a queue .
14 I get prickly heat every time I go in the sun .
15 every time I go in the
16 Sh and people here give her such a hard time I mean like the blokes are always say oh God , you know , that troll and everything but I
17 I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’
18 ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said .
19 ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end .
20 I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature .
21 By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down .
22 It seems that every other person I meet , every paper I pick up , every time I turn on the television I am exhorted to ‘ go green ’ !
23 FROM time to time I read about the Turin shroud .
24 From time to time I read about the views of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , ( Mr. Dobson ) but I was also interested to read over my cornflakes on Saturday morning the Labour party briefing to the effect that we were not to take the hon. Gentleman too seriously .
25 ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’
26 However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me .
27 ‘ You 'll be quite a good sort of person by the time you return from the Future , supposing you do return , of course , because I did n't like the sound of that spell , did you ?
28 So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig .
29 Next time you walk down the High Street in your home town , or the main shopping street of your region 's biggest city , stop at every telephone box you see .
30 like the date and the time you know along the top right
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