Example sentences of "[conj] from the time " in BNC.

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1 So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne …
2 Our house is only a flat , it 's not very long , and from the time it took my sister to leave me , go to the kitchen and tell my mum and bring her back , the baby was in my arms .
3 But certainly prefer to see that pensions , that encompass all working people and from the time that we 're men to work until they retire and that something is arrange for the person 's when they 're senior citizens .
4 But from the time the engine stopped he had five or six seconds to hit the ground .
5 There are late Flavian-Trajanic military works depots on the frontier which produced pottery , but from the time of Hadrian onwards , a different supply system was introduced .
6 This mysterious drug has not been identified by botanists , but from the time of Solon to that of Caesar it was to Cyrene what sherry is to Spain .
7 This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface .
8 but from the time they moved in she noticed red squirrels .
9 I remember the day my baby sister was born , but the pirate incident is earlier , for from the time Ann was born , she and I shared a room , and Robert had his own .
10 ‘ Anyway , I thought I was entitled to my share of what he had , for from the time I 'd gone there five years before , I 'd pulled the business up out of nothing .
11 As from the time the application to set aside is made , the time limited for compliance ceases to run .
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