Example sentences of "in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 2 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 3 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 4 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 5 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 6 | this wd / be in the time of Federico Secondo , |
| 7 | But in St John 's Wood there was a dramatic rise in the time parked in penalty — from 8 to 28 per cent . |
| 8 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |
| 9 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 10 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 11 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
| 12 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 13 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 14 | Generally , the rate of performance ( that is , sums done in the time allotted or the time taken to complete the task ) is scored rather than its accuracy . |
| 15 | Imro chief executive John Morgan rightly describes the supension as ‘ extremely disturbing ’ for unitholders but is hopeful that with Touche Ross on board the administration difficulties will be resolved along with the pricing problem in the time available . |
| 16 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 17 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 18 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 19 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 20 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 21 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 22 | The Temple compound , in its fullest development in the time of Herod , became a series of concentric circles of gradated purity . |
| 23 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 24 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 25 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 26 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 27 | On the other side of Europe , a century earlier , researches have shown the monastery of Fulda in the time of its abbot Hrabanus Maurus ( 822–42 ) to be administering a large network of parish churches . |
| 28 | Of those who laughed then , there are countless numbers who are no longer laughing today , and those who are still laughing now , will perhaps also not be doing it any longer in the time to come . ’ |
| 29 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 30 | In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned . |