Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time they [vb past] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've had them followed from the time they left the house . |
| 7 | The one disappointment for the group was in finding that all the bananas had gone by the time they got in . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her nerves were very nearly shredded by the time they ordered coffee . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 13 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 14 | They were a wonderful group who impressed from the time they came in . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |