Example sentences of "time i [vb past] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 10 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 11 | By the time I had done the obligatory 20-minute brushwork on Vaquero , my arms ached . |
| 12 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 13 | By the time I had loaded the camera we were already close to the reefs that formed the Devil 's Necklace . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the time I 'd caught the dog and put her in a box Rodney had disappeared into the gloom . |