Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 2 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 3 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 4 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 5 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 6 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 7 | Anything longer than that erm it just depends really on the time of the erm your the time of the year or how many months you 've |
| 8 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 9 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 10 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 11 | ‘ Country properties were not selling well at the time . |
| 12 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 13 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 14 | But , says his co-worker Dr David Morgan , if Allison thought that this was due to the production of free-oxygen radicals , ‘ He certainly did not say so at the time . ’ |
| 15 | I understand that the signalling and axle counter system , which is used to detect the location of trains in the tunnel , was not working normally at the time . |
| 16 | But this kind of thing does not speed up till the time of the fourth-century satraps . |
| 17 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 18 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 19 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 20 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 21 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 22 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 23 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 24 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 25 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 26 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 27 | No , it sound a good idea if it do n't fall apart nearer the time . |
| 28 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 29 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 30 | In the Kindron Valley part of the Garden of Gethsemane has been preserved with a number of very old olive trees which may even date back to the time of Jesus . |