Example sentences of "time [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Appeal Court heard or reheard aspects of the case an unprecedented five times , three times on referral back by the Home Secretary . |
| 2 | Of all the visits Scott can only recall one where the SSD would have delivered all eight key tasks in time for April regardless of the Support Force . |
| 3 | For five and a half hours , competitors in teams of four , battled it out finishing in time for lunch late in the afternoon . |
| 4 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 5 | and so you know looking back on it , was all rather funny but erm , it was n't at the time of course particularly for the children and erm mothers . |
| 6 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 7 | Time to hand back to the grown-ups . |
| 8 | He would become irate and irrational , shouting at Caroline and me and from time to time even at the nurses , who were patient and sweet and had done nothing to deserve it . |
| 9 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |