Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Matt writes of the time he became United 's manager , in 1945 : |
| 2 | No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there . |
| 3 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 4 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 7 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 10 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 11 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 12 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 13 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 14 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 15 | Were you to take after the Italians , you would use no more than oil and vinegar , added at the time you served the salad , even leaving each consumer to make up his or her own dressing . |
| 16 | Cos it had moved by the time we got there . |
| 17 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |
| 18 | The bed would be well warmed by the time he got into it in about an hour from now . |
| 19 | Only one decision was made by the time I reached London — I was going to buy nothing blue , and I was going to let my hair grow long . |
| 20 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 21 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 22 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 23 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 24 | PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England . |
| 25 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 26 | Her voice had thickened by the time she managed to reply . |
| 27 | Penelope thought it wiser not to point out that the Stores would certainly be closed by the time she got there , but felt she had done enough in showing her which bus to take . |
| 28 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 29 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 30 | 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 . |