Example sentences of "be the time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is the time I like the most |
| 5 | Mornings is the time I hear them most . |
| 6 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 9 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 10 | " Many 's the time I 've stood on the terraces at Ibrox . " |
| 11 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 12 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 13 | That 's the time I was married in May , too . |
| 14 | Yes that 's the time I 'm going as well . |
| 15 | " There was the time I saw the bear , " said Marcus unguardedly , remembering the bear . |
| 16 | That was the time I started to get used to the place , to the screws and things like that , because some had seen me before . |
| 17 | There was the time I took some of my work round for him to look at . |
| 18 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 19 | So that was the time I 've been before a recorder . |