Example sentences of "this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time they were starting to review the situation steadily , forecasting the Duke of Atholl 's likely moves , wording formal requests for warrants to meet in larger groups , arguing furiously over the likelihood of being able to get weapons from the armouries at Atholl or Taymouth Castle . |
| 2 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 3 | This time they took up Bright 's original suggestion and spliced the cable in mid-ocean on July 29 1858 . |
| 4 | This time they were naturalists . |
| 5 | But this time they were wrong . |
| 6 | While in the past , US officials blocked investigations into Gen Noriega 's drug links ; this time they let justice take its course . |
| 7 | This time they may not be so lucky . |
| 8 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 9 | By this time they are approaching the borders of the Promised Land , and minds have turned to plans for invasion . |
| 10 | Moses and Aaron bravely do not do as they are told , but this time they can not save the body of the people from disaster . |
| 11 | At least this time they do not threaten to stone Moses as they did in Exodus 17 . |
| 12 | This time they marched behind not Canon Collins but a fiercer cleric , the Reverend Michael Scott . |
| 13 | This time they got their desire . |
| 14 | During this time they are given drugs thought to be effective against Alzheimers — which also causes memory loss and lack of attention — to assess their efficacy . |
| 15 | This time they are peddling water-filters , but the product is a second-rate consideration . |
| 16 | During this time they were also shown a reel of commercials for different brands , including one for Tetley round bags . |
| 17 | This time they managed to empty the room without any mishaps and prepared it for Endill 's work . |
| 18 | When bonds came on the market after this time they were sold quietly by the Bondholders Committee to members of the Club with a long term , proven interest in its affairs , who had either enquired about bonds or were offered them being regarded as suitable individuals . |
| 19 | This time they were greeted by a good-looking young woman . |
| 20 | Always there have been unembarrassed silences between us , but this time they are filled with their exhaustion . |
| 21 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 22 | Indeed , the changes were very like the effects of irradiation with X- or ultra-violet rays , but this time they were being produced by a chemical instead of a physical agent . |
| 23 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 24 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 25 | This issue too concerns third parties , although this time they are creditors rather than buyers . |
| 26 | But this time they were chemicals . |
| 27 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 28 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 29 | This time they told us that we were to stop hunting musk and tār . |
| 30 | They threatened me once more , only this time they sounded much more serious . |