Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the time and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 2 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 3 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 4 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 5 | Catches were well documented at the time and proceeds from sales were distributed to the poor of Doncaster . |
| 6 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 7 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 8 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |