Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on my knees by the time we unpacked the sandwiches and tried to find the energy to chew , and I recall making small high-pitched squeaking noises in reply to any attempt at a chat . |
| 2 | Clearly er my recollection at the time there was great concern and it can and it 's it 's it 's arguably reflected in the public response , about creating a new road passing between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 3 | I want a list on my desk by the time I get back . ’ |
| 4 | We are setting ourselves targets for the time we take to make decisions on papers submitted to us and then to publish the papers . |
| 5 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 6 | But in Bangladesh boys are already producing more than they consume by the age of 10 and have repaid their parents ’ investment in their upbringing by the time they are 15 . |
| 7 | The woman in the fun photos , a 24-year-old Briton , is said to have sold her story of the time she spent in Andrew 's company to an American magazine . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 9 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 10 | She had regained her senses by the time she made her way back with his drink . |
| 11 | When you cram people into flat-warrens , they ca n't start running around poking their nose in every time they hear a noise next door . |
| 12 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |
| 13 | You do n't see all the ladies pulling their gloves on every time they go to church or appear in public , er and certainly men , very , very rarely wear , use gloves possibly , as we 're driving cars , we 're not exposed to the cold . |
| 14 | For example , by shouting into a pitch black cavern we can gauge its size from the time it takes the echo of the shout to reach us . |
| 15 | The fact that most of them have already had their family by the time they commence the course is the most likely explanation . |
| 16 | Your Royal Highness , commodores , and members of the Association , may I begin my report by thanking you Ma'am for the time you have given to our sport , for being with us at our Annual General Meeting and for the address you have just delivered . |
| 17 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ! he 's liable to lose half his teeth by the time he 's 40 because of Mouth Acid |
| 18 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 19 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 20 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 21 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 22 | While some of the fight had clearly faded from his team-mates by the time they reached the Oval , battling Smith was more single-minded than ever . |
| 23 | He had , according to Bowdler Sharpe , amassed a fortune of £17,000 from his publications by the time he left for Australia . |
| 24 | Gifford dated his success from the time he started to use it ; he signed his pictures with Winsor blue and a dab of the pure colour occurs somewhere in them , a sort of trademark . ’ |
| 25 | Siward was probably already one of the richest men in Scandinavian York , as well as a useful war-leader and a forthright advisor to Canute and his heirs by the time it occurred to the Lady Emma that she might do worse than encourage him to take over Northumbria . |
| 26 | But he had revised his view by the time he wrote A West-India Fortune ( 1950 ) : there , and in George III and the Politicians , the two approaches were fruitfully combined . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And would you also please make sure you give your name at the time you speak and who you represent because the the the matter is being recorded and we want to make sure we know who has said what at what time . |
| 29 | Take as your aim the thorough understanding of that part being considered by your lecturer at the time you are studying . |
| 30 | The porters were excellent and had the luggage in our rooms by the time we arrived — always the sign of a good hotel ! |