Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He checked his watch ; fifty-five minutes from the time he had replaced the phone in Mr Patel 's fruit store . |
| 2 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 3 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 4 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 6 | Light goes maybe 30 metres in the time it takes sound to travel the 0.2mm thickness of the emulsion . |
| 7 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 8 | Er but we dealt with quite a few serious accidents in the time I was there . |
| 9 | What happens to these potatoes between the time they are harvested and the time you buy them ? |
| 10 | He became a successful schoolmaster , through the kindly help of a family friend , and was a married man with three daughters by the time he walked to Cambridge in 1748 to become an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College . |
| 11 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 12 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 13 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 14 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We were all very great friends by the time they had left , ’ said Mrs Shapland . |
| 16 | Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs . |
| 17 | Richard Gough , for example , had 15 full caps by the time he was 19 . |
| 18 | This means that students must be able to achieve and demonstrate success in Compact terms by the time they reach the compulsory school leaving age at the end of the fifth year of secondary education . |
| 19 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 20 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 21 | I do n't think there were many sober players by the time they got back to Leeds . |
| 22 | The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call . |
| 23 | Since lexicographers can only proof single entries at a time it is not envisaged that providing this space will cause a problem . |
| 24 | On reading the works of Sylvia Plath , who did indeed live the life of suicide , I have noticed that her comments on impingement often seem to coincide with my own feelings at the time I was anorexic . |
| 25 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 26 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 27 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 28 | At the time of utterance , four months before the time I am writing of , the beneficent lady speaks of the future , shall have her chance . |
| 29 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 30 | I trust we shall be back in two years from the time we left England … |