Example sentences of "the time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we had to please people lots of the time -we had to kiss Aunty and show our school report to Uncle to please people . |
| 2 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 3 | Now the best remembered sporting connection is the time they persuaded Sir Matt Busby to judge the flower show . |
| 4 | ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ had become indispensable , and by the time they made their way back into Lime Street their minds were already filled with ‘ dreams of happiness ’ , to be lived out , they hoped , in some cottage not far away . |
| 5 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 6 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 7 | By the time they made it back to the house she no longer knew whether she was as fine as she had insisted on telling him . |
| 8 | One is attempting to discover what was the intention of the parties at the time they made the contract . |
| 9 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 10 | It seems clear that they had corresponded during 1796 , and by the time they met again at Stowey they were well acquainted with each other 's work . |
| 11 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 12 | Velleius Paterculus and the Latin source of the first books of Appian 's Civil War ( for which Emilio Gabba suggested the name of Asinius Pollio ) came nearer to an Italian version of Roman political history , but by the time they wrote the imperialism of the Republic had turned into the bureaucratic Empire of the Caesars : what these historians said could no longer bear fruit . |
| 13 | Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis . |
| 14 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 15 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 16 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 17 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |
| 18 | ‘ We were all very great friends by the time they had left , ’ said Mrs Shapland . |
| 19 | By the time they had sat through two party political broadcasts and Chris Patten in TV evangelist mode , they could not stand up fast enough when the Prime Minister finally appeared . |
| 20 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 21 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 22 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 23 | By the time they had sorted out the confusion and given chase , the woman had made good her escape . |
| 24 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 25 | By the time they had their health certificates the cargo , mostly cotton cloth from Manchester , had been stowed . |
| 26 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |
| 27 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 28 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 29 | By the time they had gone through he had disappeared . ’ |
| 30 | Magellan refused , of course — except that he was evidently frustrated enough at the lack of success in finding a way through to promise that if no strait was found by the time they had eaten up another 25° of latitude , he would turn east as they wished . |