Example sentences of "time [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several trucks were damaged by their sumps hitting rocks , and by the time everyone had managed to back out and find the right route , the night was slipping away . |
| 2 | Gowing goes on to indicate the health hazard arising from the intense alpha activity of polonium at the Windscale site : ‘ Alpha handling procedures had to be greatly upgraded to deal with polonium , and for a time everyone had to work with respirators … |
| 3 | Mr Edwards was delighted that for the very first time someone had started to consider the interests of the parents . |
| 4 | ’ If I had a decacred for every time someone has said that … |
| 5 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 6 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 7 | By the time I had received the alarm and gone out , his lordship and his guests had laid my father on his side , a cushion and a rug from the summerhouse serving as pillow and blanket . |
| 8 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 9 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 10 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 11 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 12 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 13 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 14 | That time I had to stifle an ‘ aye , aye ’ . |
| 15 | Each time I had to stop and spend about thirty seconds doing them up , which destroyed the rhythm of the afternoon . |
| 16 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 17 | At that time I had planned to acquire the Lightning with another well-known operator , who was at that time very active on the warbird scene . |
| 18 | By the time I had packed the things from the wardrobe and stuffed her toilet things on the top I could barely shut the case . |
| 19 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 20 | by the time I had gone through five operations I decided that as long as I could breath , that would do me and I , I would really recommend every body to think twice before having any form of plastic surgery , particularly unless its , if its not absolutely necessary . |
| 21 | It tasted dry , like pasteboard , but it was food and I could n't remember the last time I had eaten . |
| 22 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 23 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 24 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 25 | For if nothing else , by the time I had flown another twelve hours north from Auckland , and my jet had settled me on to the runway at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong , I was still on the periphery of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 26 | By this time I had begun to learn braille and a more constructive use of my white stick , other than tripping up people who got in my way . |
| 27 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 28 | This was the third time I had attended this enjoyable day 's racing . |
| 29 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 30 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |