Example sentences of "time i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 2 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 3 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 4 | By the time I had received the alarm and gone out , his lordship and his guests had laid my father on his side , a cushion and a rug from the summerhouse serving as pillow and blanket . |
| 5 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 6 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 7 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 8 | By the time I had packed the things from the wardrobe and stuffed her toilet things on the top I could barely shut the case . |
| 9 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 10 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 12 | By the time I had done the obligatory 20-minute brushwork on Vaquero , my arms ached . |
| 13 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 14 | By the time I had loaded the camera we were already close to the reefs that formed the Devil 's Necklace . |
| 15 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 16 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 17 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 18 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
| 19 | Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind . |
| 20 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 21 | By the time I 'd sawn the wood to the right length and we 'd nailed the pieces together to form a floor , we were both sweating . |
| 22 | By the time I 'd caught the dog and put her in a box Rodney had disappeared into the gloom . |
| 23 | Every time I tried to change the subject , she 'd close her eyes , hold up her hand and say , ‘ I have n't finished yet . ’ |
| 24 | I could use File Run from the Program Manager menu , but I 'd need to use that every time I wanted to run the program . |