Example sentences of "that time they " in BNC.

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1 He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them .
2 It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break .
3 This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association .
4 At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law .
5 At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger .
6 These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock .
7 However , at that time they were not prepared to make the road available .
8 At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer .
9 They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny .
10 So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting .
11 In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship .
12 Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today .
13 In that time they were totally isolated from any contact with their parents , or with anyone else they knew or who cared about them .
14 ‘ But because when we join up it will be on the back of a full weekend 's fixtures of FA Cup matches — and by that time they will have played 15 games for their clubs — I 've just asked them to keep a little compartment in their minds about England .
15 Shortly afterwards Rollasons contacted PAS with a view to purchasing the wings from them , as at that time they were desperate for Tiger Moth wings .
16 At that time they accounted for nearly two thirds of our production .
17 A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England .
18 Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits .
19 If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance .
20 At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest .
21 By that time they had all discarded their clothing .
22 By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage .
23 And then at that time they 'd just opened .
24 And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house .
25 If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so .
26 The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board .
27 In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel .
28 At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before .
29 Arrestment and inhibition can be carried out following Decree , and at that time they are described as diligence in execution .
30 At that time they maintained that Christ the son of God descended on Jesus but left him before his suffering on the cross .
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