Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | Robert still felt some confusion about what Aziz and his friends might be expected to do around the time of the little boy 's Occultation . |
| 3 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 4 | Moreover , the age-incidence curves for this group of diseases begin to flatten around the time of menopause . |
| 5 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 6 | The imagined Philip ceases to exist at the time of the older critic 's death ; the real tribute to Mr Noble was Thomas 's finest book , inscribed to his memory . |
| 7 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 8 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 9 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 10 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 11 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 12 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 13 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |