Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lane 1 of each gel contains DNA only , the remaining lanes contain samples incubated for the following time intervals : 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,20,25,30 , 40,50,60,90,120 min . |
| 2 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 3 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 4 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 6 | It came at the right time . |
| 7 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 8 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 9 | Paul Newman , older , of course , and Steve McQueen arrived in the big time , too . |
| 10 | Yes , just happened at the wrong time . |
| 11 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 12 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 13 | Mare covered at the wrong time . |
| 14 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 15 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's hearing before Mr Justice Schiemann was on the issue of whether the claim fell within the legal time limit . |
| 17 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 18 | Christina disliked her nasal drawl , and said for the final time , ‘ Well , nice to have met you both . |
| 19 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 20 | Viscount Nigel-Constantine and the elderly Bishop Hugh of Lisieux waited until the agreed time and took ship , with decorum and in an atmosphere of surprising goodwill . |
| 21 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 22 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 23 | I also stayed for the required time that politeness dictates . |