Example sentences of "the time i [vb base] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suspect a good deal , but by the time I 've tracked Garry down you 'll be an open book . |
| 2 | ‘ Tom , dear , by the time I 've asked you to pass something , and you 've said what and where is it and did n't I mean the other one , I can get this oven done and the baby born I should think . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ By the time I 've done the rest of this week , two Gypsy Barons , and two more Countess Maritzas , I 'll be totally on top of everything . |
| 4 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |
| 5 | By the time we 're on the other side of this , I know ( I 'm experienced ) , by the time I 've become really fond of them and their pretty ways , they will start to recede , irreversibly , fading from me , with the lightest of kisses , the briefest squeeze of the hand , the brush of a stockinged calf beneath the table , a smile . |
| 6 | erm , the time the time I 've given you you seem to be quite busy another five minutes or less ? |
| 7 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 8 | " Many 's the time I 've stood on the terraces at Ibrox . " |
| 9 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 10 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 11 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 12 | By the time I 've paid for my room at the YWCA and bought all the make-up and clothes I need there never seems to be anything left over . |
| 13 | He once returned to his old school and told staff : ‘ By the time I 've paid my analyst as much as my father paid you , he may have undone the damage you did . ’ |
| 14 | erm mushrooms cabbage and everything 's raw , completely raw carrots in th in the middle with two different two mayonnaise dips one plai s plain mayonnaise and the other half of it is erm garlic flavour mayonnaise and erm that 's as a starter I always have that and I thoroughly enjoy it you know that 's the by the time I 've had that I do n't want much of my main meal cos it 's great |
| 15 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 16 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |
| 17 | And at the end , Conlon drew the one hopeful conclusion : ‘ If this stops capital punishment ever coming back , the time I 've spent in prison will be well worth it . |
| 18 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 19 | By the time I 've got to the end of that I 'd be . |
| 20 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 21 | you know , by the time I 've got about three bricks down , he 's two |
| 22 | so all the time I 've got him |
| 23 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
| 24 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
| 25 | And by the time I 've finished , the car 's only done ten thousand and it 's ready for sale . |
| 26 | By the time I 've finished , your husband 's going to fall in love with you all over again . ’ |
| 27 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 28 | By the time I 've finished with this room and had the forensic lab 's report I 'll be able to tell you a lot more than his mother ever knew about him . |
| 29 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 30 | You 'll have a lot of headache by the time I 've finished . |