Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over Orkney during the time the children were away from their homes , prayers were said for them in churches of all denominations and at prayer meetings , and despite the torment they went through , none of the parents ' faiths wavered . |
| 2 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 3 | The imperial interventions in papal affairs and in the city 's government also halted the development of a controlled state as found elsewhere in Europe at the time . |
| 4 | News did not get through to Innocent at the time of the preparations for the Fourth Crusade : sometimes the news might be deliberately withheld . |
| 5 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 6 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 7 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 8 | We were on a beach just up from Frinton at the time , and when Oliver heard Gill 's remark he went into one of his spiels . |
| 9 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 10 | Okay , so make the , what 's going on in England at the time ? |
| 11 | ‘ It may be that despite what has happened , he will simply stay on in Kigali until the time he was due to fly out . |
| 12 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll be back from Poltown by the time you get back from Linby , so I 'll go to the bus-stop to meet you , ’ Angela promised . |
| 14 | As the task force made its slow way towards the Falklands exclusion zone , hostilities began in earnest on 2 May when a torpedo from a British nuclear-powered submarine sank the Argentine cruiser , General Belgrano , with the loss of 360 lives ; it was a highly suspicious episode , since the Belgrano appeared to be leaving the exclusion zone and heading back to Argentina at the time . |
| 15 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 16 | Ok , normally what we do is to charge erm , erm the lowest charge is fifty pence per mile ok , so that 'll be from the time it leaves here in London till the time it returns . |
| 17 | Such reminiscence of childhood presented at once as reality and illusion came frequently to Eliot around the time of his conversion . |
| 18 | Brooke was employed in Manchester , and then in Ireland at the time of the rebellion . |
| 19 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |
| 20 | What other entertainment was there in Harlow at the time ? |
| 21 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 22 | My wife and I were actually in Hawaii at the time ( combining business and pleasure ) secure , or so I thought , in the knowledge that everything was running smoothly . |
| 23 | CDC 's talks with its OEM RISC Unix system supplier , Silicon Graphics Inc — which has now taken a 10% stake in CDS — started ( unbeknown to CDC at the time , Ousley claims ) in parallel with SGI 's negotiations for its chip supplier , MIPS Computer Systems Inc . |