Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 2 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 3 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 4 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 5 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 6 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 7 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 8 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 9 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 10 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 11 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 12 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 13 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 14 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 15 | ( To reduce the risk of over-speeding with modern machines , the airbrakes can be opened fully at any time during the spin or the recovery . ) |
| 16 | It looked good for the cherry and whites , as they turned round at half time with an 8-0 lead . |
| 17 | The demon coughed nervously ( demons do not breathe ; however , every intelligent being , whether it breathes or not , coughs nervously at some time in its life . |
| 18 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 19 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’ |
| 21 | No sneaking out at half time like some I could mention . " |
| 22 | What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ? |
| 23 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 24 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 26 | What 's he doing here at this time of night ? |
| 27 | ‘ What on earth are you doing here at this time of the morning ? ’ she demanded sleepily . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 29 | But who knows , the illustrious Mr Punch may yet ride again at some time in the future . |
| 30 | Having been reduced to ten men after only 15 minutes , they continued to make chance after chance but went in at half time with only two goals of an advantage . |