Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 3 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 4 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 5 | Station Officer Dave Fairley of Bishop Auckland Fire Station said Mr Deacon had escaped by the time his officers reached the scene at 2.30am yesterday . |
| 6 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 7 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 8 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 9 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 10 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 11 | But the mood had passed by the time Harry walked once more into Breakspear College , sucking at an extra-strong mint and glad to see that a different porter was manning the lodge . |
| 12 | The sponsor had left by the time it happened , so how can he be furious ? |
| 13 | Erm , immediately as we went in it was er a very poorly furnished room erm I 'm going in there 's a window on the far side and there was a small single bed erm which to all intents and purposes appeared un-made at the time and there was a duvet covering it |
| 14 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 15 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
| 16 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 17 | Three years had passed since the time of her conception and she was still without spars and rigging and had not been fitted out internally . |
| 18 | The rain had subsided by the time she was ready to set out , so she only needed to knot a sweater round her shoulders . |
| 19 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 20 | It is not necessarily the Secretary of State 's definitive view , it is the view that erm the regional office have come to given the erm evidence presented presented at the time . |
| 21 | Most of the problems had disappeared by the time the baby was 8 months old and there was no link with the incidence of later problems in the relationship between the siblings . |
| 22 | The one disappointment for the group was in finding that all the bananas had gone by the time they got in . |
| 23 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 24 | Night had fallen by the time we reached the centre of Barcelona . |
| 25 | Sammy had his own log book and the number of sorties he did over Germany varied according to the time of night and the amount of beer consumed in that period . |
| 26 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 27 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
| 28 | Her voice had thickened by the time she managed to reply . |
| 29 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 30 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |