Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 2 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 3 | I was enjoying running but was still not going to put in the time necessary to break into the top rank . |
| 4 | Work on drilling more than 100 anchors should already have started by the time you read this . |
| 5 | Spread of the disease can already have occurred by the time the characteristic abscesses develop . |
| 6 | It did not seem to matter at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 8 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 9 | Already a variety of vendors are attempting to create user interfaces which go beyond GUIs , but not have appeared at the time of writing in 1990 . |
| 10 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 11 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 12 | You will also have to allow for the time lag between installation and productive use which will probably be months rather than weeks or days . |
| 13 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 14 | It was rather a small one and it did n't appear to matter at the time . ’ |
| 15 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 16 | Niall may even have surfaced by the time you join us . ’ |
| 17 | Some early rain had completely cleared and the higher parts of the road had even started to dry by the time they set off . |
| 18 | The agenda here had changed by the time of Margaret Thatcher 's election victory promise to do something about ‘ those inner cities ’ . |
| 19 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |