Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the time she [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er maybe about five six years ago , a parcel of blankets came from Iceland for the Longhope lifeboat , from this same woman , and there had been no contact whatsoever between the time she was rescued and then , which was amazing . |
| 2 | I construe this agreement as a promise by the husband to pay his wife 30s. a week in consideration of her promise to maintain herself during the time she is living separate from him , whether due to her own fault or not . |
| 3 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 4 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 5 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |