Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 2 | In fact the Forge Foundation seems to be a respectable body , chaired at the time Kalb got money by a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 3 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 4 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 5 | The BachGesellschaft and Handelgesellschaft editions were , after all , virtually complète by the time d'Indy published his first Rameau volume . |
| 6 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 7 | The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered . |
| 8 | A man was seen loitering in Clotherholme Road but had disappeared by the time officers arrived . |
| 9 | From the time Colin [ Chapman ] died until the time Mike left , he was Mr Lotus . |
| 10 | Furthermore , if Chemical did hand back the plane to Boeing , it would be at an effective cost to Virgin of a further $10m — the amount by which the plane 's value had increased in the time Virgin had owned it . |
| 11 | Where liability for negligence is excluded by a notice , the reasonableness of the exclusion depends on whether it would be fair and reasonable to allow reliance on the notice having regard to the circumstances existing at the time liability arose , or would have arisen . |
| 12 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 13 | But the mood had passed by the time Harry walked once more into Breakspear College , sucking at an extra-strong mint and glad to see that a different porter was manning the lodge . |
| 14 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 15 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 16 | The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described . |
| 17 | If such a ship or ships failed to enter , the city would capitulate by the time January entered its twentieth night . |