Example sentences of "time they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Arken where they cross the border that 's about two hundred miles and then , you know , by the time they 've gone through er er , they 'll sort of be well down into erm sort of Stuttgart way I think that sort of area probably . |
| 2 | it 'd cost you about a hundred thousand quid and by the time they 've done it , it 's exactly the same as what the other one was . |
| 3 | The appearance at Fairford is the first time they 've appeared in the west and it 's a matter of immense pride to them . |
| 4 | It 's the first time they 've visited the spot since that November night 16 months ago , the culmination of a plot motivated by jealousy and greed . |
| 5 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 6 | but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are . |
| 7 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 8 | die the first time they 've tried it |
| 9 | And er frankly , you would nah want to go to a male , a male only Burns supper , they , they they 're a most un seemly looking crew by the time they 've finished their dinner ! |
| 10 | And each time they 've brought their own brand of hospitality . |
| 11 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 12 | Customs men say it 's the first time they 've used Cites to seize timber |
| 13 | It is not the first time the British have found themselves in the path of an offensive , it is the first time they 've evacuated , in such numbers and with such urgency . |
| 14 | But after tonight 's slaughtering of ‘ Bill Is Dead ’ and ‘ Popcorn Double Feature ’ , even repeated mumblings of the old mantra that ‘ Mark Smith is The Fall ’ are unable to erase the feeling that perhaps this time they 've got it wrong . |
| 15 | And annual ; by the time they 've got themselves together it will be practically time for them to disperse . |
| 16 | By the time they 've got what they want the rest of the party has disappeared — and the track is also out of sight . ’ |
| 17 | But after tonight 's slaughtering of ‘ Bill Is Dead ’ and ‘ Popcorn Double Feature ’ , even repeated mumblings of the old mantra that ‘ Mark Smith is The Fall ’ are unable to erase the feeling that perhaps this time they 've got it wrong . |
| 18 | Ninety nine percent of the time they 've got copy that exists . |
| 19 | So that when they get to university , it 's not the first time away from home , it 's not the first time they 've got their money and so on . |
| 20 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 21 | No , this this 'll be the first time they 've come down here in about three or four month . |
| 22 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 23 | Residents say this is n't the first time they 've had problems with drivers . |
| 24 | Well normally they 'd given them dressing gowns before but it 's the first time they 've had gowns is n't it ? |
| 25 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 26 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 27 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 28 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 29 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 30 | Er on the horses that 's understandable , they can start off and probably do n't knock theirself but there 's a time they 'd done twenty or thirty mile pulling a load . |