Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 2 | One non-commissioned officer , writing home , said he presumed that by the time his letter arrived ‘ the bells throughout the whole of Germany would be announcing the victory over the mightiest enemy of civilization . |
| 3 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 4 | The french windows of the living-room stood open while they ate and by the time they reached the coffee stage darkness had closed over the hills across the water . |
| 5 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
| 6 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 7 | An inquest jury in Middlesbrough heard that at the time a module had been loaded onto a large barge ready to go out to sea . |
| 8 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 9 | He watched the slim body of Samantha dive into the pool and thought that by the time she came of an age for love he would no doubt be drifting round eternity in the unwelcome company of his wife with all rogering out of the question . |
| 10 | Now I am very ashamed of the way I felt but at the time my feelings were very strong . |
| 11 | But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ . |
| 12 | I wonder if that they filmed that at the time when the boat was in Stratford . |
| 13 | Courage and hope emerged and by the time the web was finished , the bread broken and shared , people were smiling and charged with energy . |
| 14 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |
| 16 | Mr Templeton said that at the time there had been no lifting equipment there . |
| 17 | And in fact er we said that at the time the white paper was published . |
| 18 | EVER-MARRIED ( WOMEN ) — The term includes currently married women and women who once married but at the time of the observation were divorced , separated or widowed , and excludes single persons . |
| 19 | But a defence lawyer suggested that at the time this was the normal practise in football , and Steve White agreed . |
| 20 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |