Example sentences of "time they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time they show a series of separate gill openings wedged between these shields and each associated with a tiny branchial plate . |
| 2 | But she was soon aware of his fat thigh pressing against hers , and each time they passed a gas lamp he turned to look at her . |
| 3 | In some cases the hotels are party to the commission arrangements : the Savoy , for instance , pays its own concierges commission every time they book a car through its own limousine company . |
| 4 | Any people who doubt this can carry out a simple test devised by the great cat authority , Paul Leyhausen , the next time they visit a zoo . |
| 5 | A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’ |
| 6 | When you cram people into flat-warrens , they ca n't start running around poking their nose in every time they hear a noise next door . |
| 7 | They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point . |
| 8 | On the other hand each time they get a report they 're going to have ten pieces or their work on each report |
| 9 | Last time they had a bit of difficulty organizing the rota . |
| 10 | High time they had a fall , eh ? ’ |
| 11 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 12 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 13 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 14 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 15 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 16 | That brought Nottingham within range and in no time they produced a broadside which knocked Northampton sideways . |
| 17 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 18 | Each time they did a take , or reshot to get an angle , it was necessary to smoke almost an entire joint . |
| 19 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 20 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 21 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 22 | The decision to design the lamp and gear separately was made so that consumers did not need to pay for control gear each time they bought a 2D lamp . |
| 23 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 24 | At the same time they implied a threat of punishment against the user if the coin was abused in some way . |
| 25 | People wanting to quit should keep a diary of every time they have a cigarette before they actually quit , says psychologist Dr Allan Norris . |
| 26 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 27 | The serenos receive a small salary from the shopkeepers and private houses they keep an eye on , but it is considered proper to give them a tip each time they open a door for one . |