Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 32 | He shook his head and beckoned at the same time , feeling an unutterable fool for doing so . |
| 33 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 34 | CLIVE SPUN around and collapsed at the same time , heaving from his shoulders in a spasm which threw Nina off his back . |
| 35 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 36 | He added : ‘ While Britain will enter the 21st century on the back of a 19th century railway system our French partners , who started at the same time , will have built their modern system ready for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , 10 years ahead of Britain . ’ |
| 37 | Index has one other mechanical typesetting department , with Monotype machines , which originated around the same time . |
| 38 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
| 39 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 40 | The Heath government fell in 1974 and the Box largely fell at the same time . |
| 41 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 42 | For the mid-nineteenth-century observer all history coexisted at the same time , except for that of the ancient civilisations and empires such as classical antiquity , which had been ( literally ) buried , awaiting the spades of H. Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) in Troy and Mycenae or Flinders Petrie ( 1853–1942 ) in Egypt . |
| 43 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 44 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 45 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 46 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 47 | Several other firms emerged at the same time and by the same process , such as Lamalie Associates in 1967 from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , and Ward Howell and Canny Bowen , in 1951 and 1954 respectively , from McKinsey . |
| 48 | Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well . |
| 49 | Metty is a misfit , as Golding 's Matty is in Darkness Visible , a novel which appeared at the same time as Naipaul 's . |
| 50 | As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature . |
| 51 | She laughed and cried at the same time , and could not let Oliver go . |
| 52 | We both spoke at the same time , and , inevitably , the same words . |
| 53 | She wept and spoke at the same time — uttering fragments of sentences , half completed threats , pieces of swear words , repeating the name Richard over and over with the intonation of a child calling for its mother . |
| 54 | They spoke at the same time . |
| 55 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 56 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 57 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 58 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 59 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |
| 60 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |