Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for the time he 's already spent in cutody , that means Rachael could be freed this autumn . |
| 2 | That is , it lives from the time it 's conceived and created , for some fifty or sixty years , it varies , and then the work dies . |
| 3 | In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired . |
| 4 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 5 | So , say as , say erm , say by the time you 're you 're probably , mm , I du n no , thirty . |
| 6 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 7 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 8 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 9 | The court was told that teenagers were made to suck dummies and wear nappies , were bathed like babies and told to regress to the time they were last happy . |
| 10 | Like the stroke patient who has received hospital treatment , the head-injured patient may still be fairly disabled at the time he is discharged . |
| 11 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 12 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 13 | The remainder were to be preserved or put to other uses , but delays in reaching decisions often meant that the buildings had been severely vandalised by the time they were available for conversion . |
| 14 | The wealth and power he clearly possesses by the time he is reunited with his brother would have been regarded by the writer and the first hearers of the story as clear signs of God 's blessing . |
| 15 | At six months old , she 's already visited three mills — perhaps she will attend a formulation meeting by the time she 's two ? |
| 16 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |
| 17 | Tradition criticism attempts to trace the development of a biblical story or tradition from the time it was first told to the time it was written down . |
| 18 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |
| 19 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 20 | Gordon 's interest in vintage cars began during the time he was a traffic division police officer . |
| 21 | It does n't matter if I 'm not there but umm you know with the time she 's there and whatever . |
| 22 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 23 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 24 | Did you know that there 's like a huge chance that you 'll marry someone you know by the time you 're eighteen ? |
| 25 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 26 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 27 | Will the Minister ensure that a life cycle analysis is built into the scheme to ensure that a product is judged from the time it is produced until it is recycled or destroyed ? |
| 28 | Studies have shown that most products pass through a series of stages — their life-cycle — from the time they are introduced until the time they are withdrawn . |
| 29 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 30 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |