Example sentences of "the time i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was invited to attend as a ‘ participating observer ’ and the time I spent in the Social Studies group , I remember as one of the most exciting and productive in my educational experience , marred only by the fact that the conference had to end a little early because the money ran out . |
| 2 | I was however able to amuse myself by annoying the stewardesses by buzzing them every five to ten minutes asking for a drink , hence the time I spent in the toilet . |
| 3 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 4 | Well actually the time I went in it was erm when Gillian was thinking of buying it |
| 5 | But the time I done in Holloway really turned my head . |
| 6 | Most of the time I worked in the bunkers , trying to keep the stoker supplied with enough coal to fire the furnaces ; he would rattle his shovel in the hatch if I fell behind . |
| 7 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 8 | But , he recalls : ‘ I caught a virus on the plane and by the time I arrived in Rio I could n't hear a thing . |
| 9 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 10 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 11 | By the time I arrived in Berlin , with a large box of the cactus I had made in my studio from wire , plaster impregnated bandage and nails , it was three days before the private view on 14 June . |
| 12 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |