Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still loved you , all through the time she was with me . |
| 2 | Right down to the time he was born . ’ |
| 3 | " 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 5 | She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’ |
| 6 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 7 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 8 | For example in a database containing the full text of literary works , each work will be protected in its own right and the duration of protection for that work will be based on the life of the author plus fifty years , or in the case of an Act of Parliament ( subject to Crown Copyright ) 125 years from the end of the calendar year during which it was created , and not from the time it was entered into the database . |
| 9 | Yes and erm I came down here erm just at the time I was becoming a nun thirty thirty odd years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 11 | It was just around the time you were born , Baptiste said : I do n't remember it either . |
| 12 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 13 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |
| 14 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 15 | Did they have problems with keeping the water out during the time they were storing the |
| 16 | Well at the time she was in her very late thirties , schoolteacher . |
| 17 | You see , even at the time it was only a sign . |
| 18 | But even at the time there were words of caution from those involved in the project . |
| 19 | In fact , nobody even knew I played , although I played pretty well by the time I was out of High School . |
| 20 | Piecing things together , he must have lived with them about from the time he was six to about age twelve . |
| 21 | Its unique design was never put to the test in defending against attack ; instead it was used as a prison almost from the time it was built . |
| 22 | Indeed at the time it was felt he was snubbed . |
| 23 | Females can grow to six inches or more , so I do not rule out the fishes being female , but if you had had both sexes , then by the time one was six inches the size differential should have shown up . |
| 24 | But then by the time they were fin he retired and they were finishing they were ta they were taking about less than half the time . |
| 25 | Mike was married twice by the time he was 20 : first to Jenny , and then to a large mortgage . |
| 26 | Alan Clements , Trafalgar 's chairman , persistently repeated the company 's view that the accounts ‘ were right at the time they were published' , a view supported by David Jenkins , Touche 's partner in charge of the audit . |
| 27 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 28 | He worked he worked all his time on the island apart from the time he was in the army . |
| 29 | Later , luckily by the time she was up and dressed , there was another knock on her door . |