Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [noun prp] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan .
3 The BachGesellschaft and Handelgesellschaft editions were , after all , virtually complète by the time d'Indy published his first Rameau volume .
4 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 .
5 From the time Colin [ Chapman ] died until the time Mike left , he was Mr Lotus .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door .
10 The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described .
11 If such a ship or ships failed to enter , the city would capitulate by the time January entered its twentieth night .
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