Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been urgently summoned by the sexton , whom the vicar had sent off on horseback , and he was annoyed at being dragged from his bed in Kettlewell , so early on Christmas Eve ; especially as by the time he arrived it was all over . |
| 2 | Everybody sees a different picture and of course most people see do n't see it anyway because by the time they look and see what 's happened it 's already happened . |
| 3 | Not so much because I do n't understand the subject ( that is no real obstacle to a lecturer ) , but more because of the time we are likely to consume , even if we keep a respectable distance from quantum mechanics and concentrate solely on phenomenological theories . |
| 4 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |
| 5 | And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty . |
| 6 | Such are the rigours of their adulthood ( working in bons , never eating till 11pm ) that many Hoorays remember their schooldays as the happiest time of their lives ; their schoolfriends are those they feel most at ease with , even if at the time they could n't stand them . |
| 7 | As with most projects in Hollywood , there was always an overlap between one and another , sometimes of a year or two simply because of the time it takes to get an idea , or a script or a novel , written , financed , budgeted and into production . |
| 8 | It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance , simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out . |
| 9 | A lot of couples involved with our singles ministry have taken the challenge of ‘ hands-off ’ courting and have since thanked us for it , even though at the time they wondered if they could not get by with something a bit less conservative . |
| 10 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 11 | Thus if the goods are damaged or stolen because of his negligence he will have to bear the loss even though at the time he was not the owner . |
| 12 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |