Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar decision had been made in respect of Uttar Pradesh by the time the poll date was announced in April [ see also above for Haryana ] . |
| 2 | As we have seen , Turkish tradition has in any case chosen to ignore this earlier tradition and to select the appointment of Molla Fenari in the time of Murad II as the starting point of the official Muftilik . |
| 3 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 4 | As in the autumn of 1981 , it seemed to be losing its way , with doubts over government support for British Leyland , ministers attacked over repeated strikes by secondary school teachers , and criticisms also over Britain 's support for President Reagan at the time of bombing raids on Libya . |
| 5 | The Commonwealth leaders had , with difficulty , produced a common position on the lifting of sanctions against South Africa by the time the final communiqué came to be agreed on Oct. 21 . |
| 6 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 7 | Iris elected to remain with Philippe Bonard for the time being and Jack undertook to drive her back when she was ready . |
| 8 | I think he was coming to the end of his management with Les Conn at the time . |
| 9 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 10 | SYDNEY SCHANBERG , bottom right , was The New York Times 's correspondent in Phnom Penh at the time of its fall . |
| 11 | But what about the explanation from the Durham County ambulance service general manager that the Middleton-in-Teesdale ambulance was on its way to an emergency in Newton Aycliffe at the time ? |
| 12 | Durham Ambulance Service chiefs have said the single ambulance on duty at the town 's station was on an emergency call in Newton Aycliffe at the time . |
| 13 | Eliot had arrived in South Africa by the time The Cocktail Party opened in New York on 21 January 1950 , at the Henry Miller Theatre . |
| 14 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 15 | Stars : Everyone in Austin Texas at the time . |
| 16 | At one time it was feared that the highly-rated midfielder , who attracted an unsuccessful £1.3m bid from Crystal Palace at the time of the Marco Gabbiadini transfer in September , would need an operation , but he has managed to recover thanks to special exercises under the close supervision of club physiotherapist Steve Smelt . |
| 17 | Figure 2.8 shows the numbers of men and women in Great Britain at the time of the 1981 Census who were employed in the various OPCS social classes or out of employment . |
| 18 | He had been working in San Francisco at the time , still learning his trade , revelling in the whole carefree Californian ethos , the sense of shackles dropping , of new horizons glimmering . |
| 19 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 20 | Halfway through the tour Ollie Campbell , who was holidaying in New Zealand at the time , made the comment that the Irish were under-prepared for the speed and physical impact of the game as practised by the stronger New Zealand sides . |
| 21 | Derek who exposed the fraud , took the trouble of consulting the police records , for Samoa , at the time when Margaret , was there , and although Margaret claimed there was no rape in Samoa , because children were brought up so nicely , in this kind of , tropical paradise that she , that she portrayed in the book , the fact is , according to the police records , there were more rapes in Samoa , while Margaret , than were occurring in New York at the time was writing , during the nineteen eighties |
| 22 | An early nineteenth-century country-style bedroom contrasts with the elegance of the Greek Revival diningroom of New York and the richly ornate bedroom from New Orleans at the time of the Civil War . |
| 23 | Pte Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months , and had just completed six months of his tour of duty in Northern Ireland at the time of his death . |
| 24 | Sir Robert Mark , Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ( 1972 — 1977 ) , had always advocated the need for the police to have adequate notice of processions in public places and included such a suggestion in evidence to Lord Scarman at the time of the Red Lion Inquiry . |
| 25 | As he notes in his autobiography , he was torn between the conflicting demands of American and F1 racing : ‘ I recall saying to Peter Revson at the time that I really envied the hell out of him . ’ |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 27 | SHE WAS LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND HE WAS SPOKESMAN ON NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE TIME . |
| 28 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 29 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 30 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |