Example sentences of "the usual time " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 2 | Another scheme developed in Peterborough with local gynaecologists sees Cherylynne Churchill arriving home by ambulance after three nights in hospital for her hysterectomy — the usual time is between seven to 11 days — to be greeted by the district nurse , a patient aide , and Mrs Elizabeth Allen . |
| 3 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll call at the usual time next Tues . |
| 5 | I put out my tongue and Frankie did likewise , but before we had got out she said , ‘ You can tell your mother and father that I shall be calling at the usual time on Saturday . |
| 6 | As on the previous night , the mail train roared past the signal box at the usual time and Jack again heard footsteps in the still night walking under the box . |
| 7 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 8 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |
| 9 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 10 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 11 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 12 | Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time . |
| 13 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 14 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 15 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 16 | These talks will all be at the usual time , date and place — 7.30 p.m. on the first Friday of the month , at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 17 | These talks will all be at the usual time , date and place — 7.30 p.m. on the first Friday of the month , at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 18 | The microwave combination 's ability to prime cook à la carte dishes in about a fifth of the usual time offers opportunities to introduce items on the menu which traditionally have meant advance ordering , for example , racks of lamb , beef Wellingtons , en croûte dishes and so on . |
| 19 | then , by setting a fifth of the usual time , a ball park figure was laid down for trail and error , up and down the variables until a best method was agreed by all . |
| 20 | The court can , for example , make a residence order that will last until the final hearing but the usual time limits will apply to any interim supervision order made at the same time . |
| 21 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 22 | See you later on yeah , about er about the usual time |
| 23 | I 'll go to bed the usual time . |