Example sentences of "time i [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I went to the head of the stairs , my longing to go to him was so strong . |
| 2 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 3 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 4 | Like Claudia , I have an interest in the NEC show , and it 's time I checked on the progress of my entries . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ By the time I rolled to the bottom of the slope I could see the steady fire coming from the windows . |
| 6 | The first time I came across the problem I was knitting a tuck stitch sweater . |
| 7 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 8 | Last time I went to the hairdresser 's I was so crippled with period pains I drank three instant g & t's on the bus . |
| 9 | ‘ Probably the last time I went to the cinema , ’ the last member of the trio , a small , mousy-haired woman , chimed in , a littly archly . |
| 10 | The collection or pot plants was n't simply brought about by my parking my car at the garden centre every time I went to the hospital ; there was more to it than that . |
| 11 | Well , I 'd done that there , and that had gone by the time I went to the hospital and I thought brilliant ! |
| 12 | Er last time I went to the doctor was when I hurt my back . |
| 13 | First time I went to the zoo I was erm |
| 14 | ‘ It was the first time I played for the County . |
| 15 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |
| 16 | I think last time I looked at the hire list , price , price list |
| 17 | Every time I looked in the mirror — and I can be a very careful driver if I want to be — I saw the languid bride with shuttered eyes and hair adrift . |
| 18 | The first time I walked in the park , it was marvellous . |
| 19 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 20 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 21 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 22 | This was unnerving and by the time I got to the top I was exhausted . |
| 23 | By the time I got to the officer , the children had practically stripped him . |
| 24 | By the time I got to the bathroom at half time and over to get something to eat there was nothing hot left . |
| 25 | By the time I got to the smithy there were a queue of horses halfway down the street , all waiting to be roughed . |
| 26 | By the time I got to the city centre I was sweating all over — I 'd get to stink at this rate . |
| 27 | By the time I got to the Party Conference in October , I was under police guard . |
| 28 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 29 | So rather than cause er an incident there and then , I informed my partner to follow them back to wherever they went , which time I got on the radio back to control , that we required the police and the fire brigade . |
| 30 | See , the first time I got behind the wheel , I hit a deer and killed it … |