Example sentences of "time i get [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
2 It was time I got up . ’
3 Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor .
4 ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’
5 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
6 But I have twice dreamt of being led to the noose , the second time I got closer than the first , I hope I never have a third !
7 But I have twice dreamt of being led to the noose , the second time I got closer than the first , I hope I never have a third !
8 Time I got approximately though on or off for all
9 This time I got out of the car and felt my stomach heave again .
10 I 've just had two great jockeys John Francombe and Jonjo O'Neill phone me and they both agree it 's time I got out and I should be pleased they tell me
11 to climb the stairs , and I think then you tend to panic a bit , I and I felt most of the time I felt fine , and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning , by the time I got off , it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session , but I mean , as I said we ai n't used to drinking in the day like that
12 He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on .
13 ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show .
14 And by the time I got there I was very cold and hungry .
15 I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion .
16 By the time I got there , a recession and punk rock had knocked all that on the head .
17 By the time I got there half the house had already burnt down .
18 I was really bad by the time I got there , y'know what I mean .
19 I could hardly breathe by the time I got there ; my chest felt as if it was bursting and my throat was clenched tight and my legs were quivering again .
20 By the time I got there , I 'd changed my mind .
21 By the time I got there he was dead . ’
22 By the time I got there it had gone . ’
23 If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there
24 I was hoping there was , cos it 's about time I got back home — it 's getting pretty late .
25 By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel .
26 By the time I got back to my parents ' house my face was grey .
27 By the time I got back inside Eleanor Darcy was gone . ’
28 By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds .
29 By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty .
30 Each time I got back to Rocamar Peter would say , ‘ Well ? ’ and I would shrug and pretend I did n't know what the hell he was talking about . ’
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