Example sentences of "from [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be back from Poltown by the time you get back from Linby , so I 'll go to the bus-stop to meet you , ’ Angela promised . |
| 5 | We were on a beach just up from Frinton at the time , and when Oliver heard Gill 's remark he went into one of his spiels . |
| 6 | The commonest reason for missing a dose was absence from home at the time of the fieldworker 's visit . |
| 7 | It is regarded as worthy of Christians to feed the starving ; to desist from war during the time of our dear Lord 's Nativity . ’ |
| 8 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 9 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 10 | Probably all three of them were away from court at the time of the murder : Waddo was certainly in the retinue of Chilperic 's daughter Rigunth , who was en route for Spain , where she was to have been married . |
| 11 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 12 | It is likely that some of the chief Druids fled from Gaul at the time of Caesar 's invasion and took refuge in Britain where they initiated and developed a strong anti-Roman feeling among the most susceptible British chieftains . |
| 13 | It was later that evening that Simon Pardy , released from custody for the time being with a stern warning not to leave the town , went home . |
| 14 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 15 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 16 | No wonder that the myth of handles being removed from coffins at the time of cremation perpetuates . |
| 17 | Two of his daughters were also living not far from London throughout the time the younger John Cranko was living there , but there is no indication that the latter was aware of these kinsfolk ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you remember who was involved from Charlie at the time ? ’ |