Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell .
2 Came about half ten , so I do n't know what time I went down the Rave 's , be that time .
3 I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’
4 And all the time I kept up the visualization .
5 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
6 I wanted to do it , but every time I picked up the Bic , a job came up .
7 Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame .
8 On one tank I had , the fish panicked and hid every time I switched on the lighting .
9 I waited at the carousel , Gillie fetched a trolley , and by the time she got back the bags had already come up .
10 The second time she picked up the lure and pulled up clumsily on my fist .
11 I would say it would n't matter what time you went up the park there 'd be somebody there .
12 If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ?
13 At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support .
14 It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen .
15 Is n't it time they gave up the game and settled into cosy , post-stude domesticity ?
16 At the same time it set up the Seiji Togo Memorial Museum , which now occupies the forty-second floor of the spectacular headquarters tower in Tokyo , and houses pictures by Chagall , Gauguin , Picasso , Renoir and Grandma Moses .
17 He was worried about them and by the time he came down the gang had gone .
18 Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church .
19 Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes .
20 After a time he switched on the television .
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