Example sentences of "[conj] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 2 | That 's the time you 're going to get up or the time you 're going to leave ? |
| 3 | ‘ Except the time she said she wished she were a boy … |
| 4 | The cost of recruitment should not be underestimated nor the time it takes from the decision to recruit to the new staff member joining . |
| 5 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 6 | I think there are many advantages to returning to work in addition to the fact that the time you spend with your child is so much more special and pleasurable . |
| 7 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 8 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 9 | i find that the time I spend with Danielle now is action packed and full of play , kisses and cuddles and more stimulating for us both than it was previously . |
| 10 | And it was just me arm and me hand and me face that were were burnt and and at that the time I mean I was n't in any pain and I think there was more serious ones to be dealt with . |
| 11 | But she was not a business executive for nothing , and , since it went without saying that the time he could spare her from his day was limited , she placed the buff folder down upon the desk and without more ado began , ‘ The Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 12 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 13 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 14 | A lot faster than the time it takes to tell ! ’ |
| 15 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 17 | I could remember nothing further back than the time I was walking over that miserable plain . |
| 18 | Although the time she spends actively involved in teaching may be limited , she can , through her organisation of nursing care , facilitate teaching by others . |
| 19 | It takes much cranking of the engine with the starter motor to get going again — although the time it takes to fire up does vary . |
| 20 | Although the time it takes an egg to travel from the ovary to the womb can be five to eight days , the egg itself can only be fertilised in the first 6–24 hours following ovulation . |
| 21 | There is considerable evidence to suggest that Catholic devotional practices remained extremely popular right up until the time they were banned , and there can be little doubt that , following their suppression , many lay people initially felt an acute sense of loss and found the new Protestant liturgy an uncongenial and inadequate substitute for their traditional customs and beliefs . |
| 22 | It does take account of those beds that were available in those three homes during the current year up until the time they closed . |
| 23 | Well up until the time I would be about eight years old when my father decided there was a change in the estate then and it was off to Argyllshire Dalmally that Sir Douglas and Lady as she was then decided to go and wanted my father to come with him . |
| 24 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 25 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 26 | The difference in our height changes between the time we get up in the morning and the time we go to bed at night . |
| 27 | There are risks because of the operation and also the size of the child and the time we have to do it , so soon after birth . |
| 28 | His sister 's afterbirth was in the road — and the time they had getting it away ! ’ |
| 29 | It is perhaps interesting that some of them , because of the volume of work , had had difficulty keeping to this , and that those who had — Natalie , for example , who played a trumpet in a band — found some tension between their course work and the time they wanted to devote to their hobby . |
| 30 | At each level of the system we found claims to breadth and balance undermined by countervailing policies and practices : by Authority special projects favouring some areas at the expense of others ; in central INSET provision ; in PNP development fund allocations ; in the distribution of posts of responsibility in schools ; in school-based INSET ; in the status of postholders and the time they had to undertake their curriculum leadership responsibilities ; in the areas of the curriculum subjected to review and development ; in teacher expertise ; and above all in the quality of children 's classroom experiences . |