Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 2 | Station Officer Dave Fairley of Bishop Auckland Fire Station said Mr Deacon had escaped by the time his officers reached the scene at 2.30am yesterday . |
| 3 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 4 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 5 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 6 | The imagined Philip ceases to exist at the time of the older critic 's death ; the real tribute to Mr Noble was Thomas 's finest book , inscribed to his memory . |
| 7 | Sammy had his own log book and the number of sorties he did over Germany varied according to the time of night and the amount of beer consumed in that period . |
| 8 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 9 | Mother Mary Theresa became involved about the time of the outbreak of World War II . |
| 10 | From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously . |
| 11 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |