Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [that] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 2 | I hope that by the time you read this report we will have got several protests off the ground . |
| 3 | I hope that in the time of the consultation they actually begin to take on board the fact that we 're talking about human beings . |
| 4 | I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was . |
| 5 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 6 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 7 | We note that at the time of going to press a restructuring of the advisory service is under consideration ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 8 | Because they know that by the time he gets to court , he 'll be thrown out , and all the time will be wasted , |
| 9 | They claim that by the time a pushchair is passed on to a second or third child it 's brakes are often defective . |