Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 27 finalists are listed below and at the time of going to press they are poised for the grand final in London . |
| 2 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 3 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 4 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 5 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 6 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |