Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 2 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
| 3 | I was very much happier by the time I went to sleep . |
| 4 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 5 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 6 | So most of the time I 'm an exile . |
| 7 | Very little glass is wholly untouched from the time it is drawn or blown from the melt , and it takes only the lightest contact to create an elaborate crack pattern . |
| 8 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 9 | The discussion presented has the benefit of hindsight : although each idea appears obvious and in an obvious sequence , most were not obvious at the time they were discovered , the steps were not considered in this order and the overall result does not seem obvious even now . |
| 10 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |
| 11 | Many teachers were simply not available at the time we visited and some who were approached refused to go through the questionnaire with us . |
| 12 | The plaintiff was just eighteen at the time she was in her A level year at school . |
| 13 | The long residence time even means that short-lived radioactive substances , such as those released by the Chernobyl accident , will be largely harmless by the time they emerge from an aquifer . |
| 14 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 15 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 16 | It was nearly dark by the time they reached the hut . |
| 17 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 18 | Icelandic salt cod was cheap , but transport and storage facilities were so unreliable that it was often rotten by the time it reached the housewife . |
| 19 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 20 | Gold Australe can reach up to ½″ in size in three weeks and they can be sexually mature by the time they are 12 weeks old . |
| 21 | I was really bad by the time I got there , y'know what I mean . |
| 22 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 23 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 24 | Has it ever occurred to you that I was wedded and bedded and well pregnant by the time I was your age ? |
| 25 | Was n't clear at the time what the circumstances were . |
| 26 | ‘ In fact , it 'll probably be even huger by the time we 've convicted Mutton on corruption charges , as well as Jake for smugglin' ! ’ |
| 27 | I thought he was simply jealous of the time I spent with her , instead of sitting on the other side of the gas fire , knitting or darning socks while he marked his school books . |
| 28 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 29 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 30 | Yeah and then that by the time I get back about fourish |