Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 2 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 3 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 4 | If you use the green code consistently the idea should be well rooted by the time they go to school . |
| 5 | This procedure can be rigorously justified , but roughly speaking the linear flow in B is justified for B small enough , and the affine transformation is justified because the time taken by trajectories to traverse the tubes T or 5 is small compared with the time they spend within B. It is also permissible , for r close to r* , to assume that the eigenvalues } i and the matrix A are constants which do not depend on r , whereas a and b depend linearly on ( r-r* ) . |
| 6 | With this sort of hierarchical team , the possibility of idiosyncratic judgements is minimized , and with the control of the recording in the supervisors ' hands , errors are more readily noted at the time they occur and can be corrected or allowed for in the subsequent analysis . |
| 7 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 8 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 9 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 10 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've had them followed from the time they left the house . |
| 13 | The one disappointment for the group was in finding that all the bananas had gone by the time they got in . |
| 14 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 15 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 16 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 17 | Some early rain had completely cleared and the higher parts of the road had even started to dry by the time they set off . |
| 18 | There was no privacy , the ‘ moving wallpaper ’ simply ran from the time they returned from industrial therapy to tea-and-bed time at about 9.15p.m . |
| 19 | Her nerves were very nearly shredded by the time they ordered coffee . |
| 20 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 21 | I think there should be a more stringent system of entry into the drama schools so that there is a higher standard of work achieved by the time they come to join the profession . |
| 22 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 23 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 24 | The wreaths sold well , fetching prices over three pounds each , a figure that will double by the time they reach the shops . |
| 25 | They were a wonderful group who impressed from the time they came in . |
| 26 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 27 | 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 ? |