Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times he went back to the spot where he had hidden the sack as though unable to believe it had gone . |
| 2 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 3 | It was the first and only time I walked over to the pavillon , knocked on the door and entered alone . |
| 4 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 5 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 6 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 7 | I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car . |
| 8 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |
| 9 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 10 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |
| 11 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 12 | Cheap advertising , which means the next time you come back to the Centre , will you bring it back ? |
| 13 | ‘ But do n't you think it 's time you got back to the ward ? ’ |
| 14 | We had just such a function there last Saturday , where the consensus was that making a living was getting a bit easier , that the economy was startling to move forward , and that , by the time we get round to the season of the darling buds of May , the prospects for Her Majesty 's Government might well be ’ perfick , just perfick ’ . |
| 15 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 16 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it 's time we went back to the boat . ’ |
| 18 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 19 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 20 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 21 | By the time they came back to the club house the sun was already setting . |
| 22 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 23 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 24 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 25 | It 'd be knackered by the time it gets down to the Cocks Terry , from here . |
| 26 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 27 | Apart from providing such basic info as the date that any hit reached pole position , the length of time it held on to the top spot and a full rundown on catalogue numbers , songwriters , producers etc , there 's also a full page of background on the history of the song and its performers . |
| 28 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 29 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 30 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |