Example sentences of "time [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1	I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen .
2	I do n't trust you and I shall be breathing down your neck next time you pick up a phone . ’
3	So what you 're saying is then , you like the idea of every time you pick up a phone you make , you earn a pound .
4	when you want to put in highlights at the end of your painting , the paint will tend to sink in each time you put on a pale colour if the paper is still damp .
5	You could actually shorten this still further and , each time you make up a ten , cross it out and put 1 .
6	Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom .
7	What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
8	Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes .
9	they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past .
10	But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive .

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