Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away .
2 ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA !
3 And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty .
4 Hitler was breaking out and at the time his bombers , summoned up by Franco , were in the process of wiping out the Basques ' spiritual and cultural home of Guernica .
5 While Ismail Belig may have some evidence for this view , evidence which in any case he does not mention , it is worth pointing out that by the time he was writing , the combination of such important posts would have been highly unusual , if not unknown , whereas in the early days of the Ottoman state it was not uncommon .
6 Then you go in and by the time you 've arrived at his bedside , he will have acquired a dim grasp of where he is .
7 ‘ Yeah , well … we went over that at the time , did n't we ? ’
8 He would go up to his desk , work there shredding paper , come down and in no time rush up again to check on some figures and return bringing more paperwork with him .
9 And then it comes on and by the time two or three o'clock I I 'm I 'm a wreck , even
10 Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning .
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