Example sentences of "to this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having wrested from Lucy an I do n't know , you 'll have to decide for both of us , having an ‘ us ’ acknowledged , she felt there was a purpose to this time of denial . |
| 2 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 3 | ‘ And where d' you think you 've been to this time of night ? ’ |
| 4 | She will not like me to refer to this time when she is better , Dorothea thought , she will avoid my company and we will only wish one another the most formal good morning . |
| 5 | It is important to adhere to this time on every baiting session . |
| 6 | Prior to this time it had to travel in cask and the resultant ‘ sparkling ’ wine must have been a sorry product , hardly an advertisement for its quality and reputation . |
| 7 | During much of the period leading up to this time the Panel had been considering the case of the large South Ronaldsay family whose father had been imprisoned — the family of fifteen children who so badly needed a positive and sympathetic solution to their problems . |
| 8 | The broken Mirror , with its tired old political bias , has lost a massive 158,970 circulation compared to this time last year . |
| 9 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 10 | Up to this time Jones had been concentrating on his muon work for which the DOE had been providing the funding . |
| 11 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 12 | Up to this time no genuine attempt had been made to acquire knowledge of our early inhabitants , no extensive plan for a generalisation of known excavations . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 14 | Most will think " Now what is he up to this time ? " . |
| 15 | Up to this time all the Science teaching had taken place in the top corridor overlooking the tennis courts ; here were the Sykes Lecture Room , a small Chemistry preparation room , a large Chemistry laboratory , a small Physics laboratory ( which had been the Art Room prior to the 1937 expansion ) , and a small room in the tower . |
| 16 | This shop 's takings are down by half , compared to this time last year . |
| 17 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 18 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 19 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 20 | Up to this time , Leith had not been considered suitable for some of the larger excursion steamers . |
| 21 | Gould 's collection up to this time consisted , as the Hobart Town Courier related on 24 May , of ‘ about 800 specimens of birds , 70 of quadrupeds ( several of which are new ) , more than 100 specimens preserved whole in spirits , and the nest[s] and eggs of above 70 species of birds , together with skeletons of all the principal forms . |
| 22 | Monte Carlo I think he was going to this time . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't understand how you knew they would come back here , to this time , at this place in the universe . |
| 24 | What villainy are you up to this time ? ’ |
| 25 | Regional policy did not emerge in the EC until 1975 , but nevertheless , prior to this time there was embodied in the Treaty of Rome an implicit concern for regional disparities . |
| 26 | I had not had very successful relationships with people up to this time and I said no to him . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm ready when you want I 'm going to this time daddy . |
| 28 | Where are you off to this time ? |