Example sentences of "time we [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To become a ‘ presence ’ for others opens up a new dimension of being , and at the same time we know the joy of God 's presence in our lives . |
| 2 | They have an apparatus that solves the necessary equations , just as our brains unconsciously solve equations every time we catch a ball . |
| 3 | It 's does n't matter but Ian has suggested that next time we appoint a treasurer who has the account |
| 4 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 5 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 6 | Because , by the time we reach the house where the twins are staying , I expect you to be in a friendly , pleasant state of mind . |
| 7 | After the last time we got a problem , |
| 8 | The last time we got a penalty away from home , Christ was a carpenter . |
| 9 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 10 | This time we looked a couple of yards short and won . ’ |
| 11 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 12 | By the time we left the Parrot there was only an hour left to closing time . |
| 13 | By the time we left the house half an hour later , there was absolutely no doubt about the pain ! ’ |
| 14 | We have three separate heaps , side by side , so by the time we use the compost it is three years old , having been turned once each year . |
| 15 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 16 | ‘ Until that time we had no knowledge of any sort of drug involved in the death , ’ said Det Supt Gooch . |
| 17 | I think it 's time we had a drink . |
| 18 | time we had a wash up and a cup of tea I think . |
| 19 | That 's why I think it 's time we had a look at his flat . " |
| 20 | Time we had a bit of discipline in the ranks . ’ |
| 21 | It really is about time we had a BIT of luck . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay . |
| 23 | Er I and the council will recall the last time we had a motion on V A T when we asked . |
| 24 | This time we had a slide quiz . |
| 25 | So the last time we had a break was er , well , actually , we did n't do the useful formulae , did we , last time ? |
| 26 | However , every time we had a break into there half we were hacked down . |
| 27 | The first time we had a break together , Dinda said let's go out , I said well somewhere fairly close where we can take little Rocket |
| 28 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 29 | Ah , that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's time we had a talk , ’ Otley said the next morning . |