Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be twenty to by the time I get round there . . |
| 2 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 3 | He had been killed instantly along with two other Commandos who were close by at the time , their remains scattered through the trees . |
| 4 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 5 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |