Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 2 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 3 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 4 | Yes , but very restricted erm in other words if you look at the history of Kuwait for the time that we received or we got our independence , we had to start our nationalisation process as an independent country . |
| 5 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 6 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 7 | So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school . |
| 8 | ‘ She thinks it was some distance outside Harpenden from the time it took to get there , but she 's very disorientated . |
| 9 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 10 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 11 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 12 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 13 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 14 | Stars : Everyone in Austin Texas at the time . |
| 15 | Salmon , who was close to Picasso at the time and whose interest in tribal art probably antedates Picasso 's , confirms this . |
| 16 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |
| 17 | Liebowitz and Horowitz ( 1968 ) suggested that what was happening in the United States at the time , was a process of merging of politics and social deviance such that they were becoming indistinguishable . |
| 18 | The tutor-organiser was also best-placed to counsel WEA students considering full-time higher education on adult state scholarships ( of which there were two in Northamptonshire at the time ) ; he was also in a position to attend daytime meetings of local bodies , on behalf of the WEA . |
| 19 | Many of those who stayed behind , especially the adherents of the Bogomil faith , accepted Islam , and their descendants form the nucleus of the Islamic community which embraced 37 per cent of the population of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the time of the 1981 census . |
| 20 | Tony Visconti explains why , although he was making an album with David at the time , he refused to produce the ‘ Space Oddity ’ single as he thought it was passè because the moon shot was about to take place , and the lyrics ‘ sounded like a nick from Simon and Garfunkel ’ . |
| 21 | Usually , David at the time would surround himself with friends who did things for him , thinking he would get things done out of loyalty . |
| 22 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 23 | We were living in Surrey at the time and I was sharing a double bed with my brother , who 's five years older than me . |
| 24 | It is possible that Leapor was employed at Weston at the time of Arthur Barnardiston 's death . |
| 25 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 26 | The Smallholders ' Party was the largest political party in Hungary at the time of its dissolution in 1948 . |
| 27 | At one time it was feared that the highly-rated midfielder , who attracted an unsuccessful £1.3m bid from Crystal Palace at the time of the Marco Gabbiadini transfer in September , would need an operation , but he has managed to recover thanks to special exercises under the close supervision of club physiotherapist Steve Smelt . |
| 28 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 29 | His parents had settled in East Dulwich at the time of his registration for Battersea Polytechnic , Michael Joyce having by then cut his losses in building or ‘ architecture ’ and opened his grocer 's shop in this prosperous middle-class suburb . |
| 30 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |