Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 32 | While this is not the place to explore that research in any detail , it will be helpful to describe briefly the kinds of understanding which are believed to be present in young children by the time they begin to use language . |
| 33 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 34 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 35 | The defendant had raped and molested both girls from the time they were 11 or 12 until they were in their late teens . |
| 36 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |