Example sentences of "the time we have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 2 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 3 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 4 | I get worried when he does things because when he 's working like he 's working and he 's travelling like he 's doing I 'm , he goes Monday morning , he comes back Friday , by the time we 've done our shopping Saturday , he 's , he 's , if we go out Saturday night it 's what , eleven , twelve o'clock or more , it 's gone twelve o'clock usually after he 's gone and he 's back up then . |
| 5 | by the time we 've calculated what 's th the remaining sixty five percent of |
| 6 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , it 'll probably be even huger by the time we 've convicted Mutton on corruption charges , as well as Jake for smugglin' ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ More like the New Disneyland , by the time we 've finished ! |
| 9 | By the time we 've finished the book , bang we 're on top of the Easter holidays . |
| 10 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 11 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 12 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 13 | I mean , if you think of say , the time we 've spent talking about functions and mapping . |
| 14 | We 've both changed during the time we 've spent apart . |
| 15 | by the time we 've had our third cup of tea yo you might be leaving here . |
| 16 | by the time we 've walked round |
| 17 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 18 | By the time we 'd got out of there I 'd received two ‘ love letters ’ from a couple of nine-year-olds and pocketfuls of poems and drawings . |
| 19 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 20 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 21 | By the time we had landed , the floor of the radio room was slick with his blood . |
| 22 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 23 | By the time we had reached Skala Maries and turned inland , I had mastered the gear changes sufficiently for Beth to relax the vice-like grip she had on my waist and enjoy the scenery . |
| 24 | By the time we had discovered what had happened , the ants were attacking the entire collection , swarming over the snakes within their gauze-covered boxes . |
| 25 | By the time we had dressed the first grey light of the day had appeared at the window . |
| 26 | And by the time we had butted our way into orbit around the planet , I was feeling fairly relaxed . |
| 27 | By the time we had drunk our third bottle of wine Ellen and I had long reached New Zealand and were already sailing north towards New Caledonia . |
| 28 | By the time we had crossed two more we had decided to stop drying our feet and re-booting after each one , and set off across the bogs in bare feet . |
| 29 | By the time we had heard of anything you could be sure it was over . |
| 30 | However , by the time we had spotted the first speck through our high-powered binoculars , the vulture was already descending . |