Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this kind of thing does not speed up till the time of the fourth-century satraps . |
| 6 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 11 | That 's what we really come back to every time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening . |
| 15 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |
| 16 | You could n't go back to the time when the great art critics like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Read reigned supreme , even if you wanted to . |
| 17 | ‘ He and Marius did n't get on at the time . |
| 18 | On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received . |
| 19 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 20 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |