Example sentences of "time we [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have an apparatus that solves the necessary equations , just as our brains unconsciously solve equations every time we catch a ball . |
| 2 | It 's does n't matter but Ian has suggested that next time we appoint a treasurer who has the account |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | After the last time we got a problem , |
| 5 | The last time we got a penalty away from home , Christ was a carpenter . |
| 6 | This time we looked a couple of yards short and won . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think it 's time we had a drink . |
| 9 | time we had a wash up and a cup of tea I think . |
| 10 | That 's why I think it 's time we had a look at his flat . " |
| 11 | Time we had a bit of discipline in the ranks . ’ |
| 12 | It really is about time we had a BIT of luck . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay . |
| 14 | Er I and the council will recall the last time we had a motion on V A T when we asked . |
| 15 | This time we had a slide quiz . |
| 16 | So the last time we had a break was er , well , actually , we did n't do the useful formulae , did we , last time ? |
| 17 | However , every time we had a break into there half we were hacked down . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 20 | Ah , that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's time we had a talk , ’ Otley said the next morning . |
| 22 | Let me think … yes , it was the last time we had a class . ’ |
| 23 | It was about time we had a match where everything went right . |
| 24 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 25 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 26 | In 1703 Bishop Nicholson records a Churchwarden 's remark characteristic of the sturdy independence of Dalesmen , ‘ Except the Vicar and the Schoolmaster , we have not a Gentleman among us , nor can any remember the time we had a Beggar . ’ |
| 27 | We have to remember that every time we make a purchase , we are converting our assets , which are very compact , and have the ability to maintain us through the interest they accrue , into bulky or fragile items which require maintenance , space and insurance . |
| 28 | In originally filling our tank , and every time we make a water change — which is a vital part of the filtration process — we could add substances that are potentially lethal to our fish . |
| 29 | It 's time we made a man of you , aye , and time you stopped fooling with girls and halfwits . " |
| 30 | I feel that it 's time we made a commitment . |