Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 3 | But quotas set to ensure the sustainability of the resource were widely ignored : Russian and East European factory ships moved in for months at a time , and Spain took the opportunity to develop a host of industries back home — from ship-building to canning — based on the hake resources of Namibia . |
| 4 | A subsequent call , also noted down in detail at the time , established that before the disaster Connelly had attended a meeting in Frankfurt between various agencies monitoring a drug-trafficking operation through the airport which involved the switching of baggage . |
| 5 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 6 | News did not get through to Innocent at the time of the preparations for the Fourth Crusade : sometimes the news might be deliberately withheld . |
| 7 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 8 | I can tell you — I was almost propping my eyelids up with matchsticks by the time Ben used to get back from the office ! |
| 9 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 10 | Trudgill 's informants grew up in Norwich at a time when the city was expanding to accommodate many incomers from surrounding localities and from London : the resulting linguistic situation may well have been characterised by diffuse norms which allowed " outsiders " , including those born in Norwich to parents from elsewhere , to " get away with " an imperfect knowledge of the Norwich dialect . |
| 11 | In view of the disadvantages of the husband having a fixed sum tied up in property at a time of depreciating money values , practitioners might be advised to consider including in the mortgage a provision to the effect that any capital sum received by the wife during the currency of the mortgage ( for example , by way of inheritance or pools win ) should be paid to the husband by way of reduction of the mortgage debt . |
| 12 | We were on a beach just up from Frinton at the time , and when Oliver heard Gill 's remark he went into one of his spiels . |
| 13 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 14 | So if we just add up over sort of the time horizon of this person , this person 's life , right , his expected wage in agriculture , right , it 's going to be this , this , this area here . |
| 15 | Okay , so make the , what 's going on in England at the time ? |
| 16 | ‘ It may be that despite what has happened , he will simply stay on in Kigali until the time he was due to fly out . |
| 17 | They walked on in silence for a time , and then Hilary said : ‘ I still think your mum 's playing a dirty game , or she 's imagining things . |
| 18 | Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer . |
| 19 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 20 | But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute . |
| 21 | They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission . |
| 22 | We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed . |
| 23 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 24 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
| 25 | Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made . |
| 26 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 27 | He was out of breath by the time he had canted her back , ground her round , settled the chair on the rough track again . |
| 28 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 29 | The West Stand will be out of commission at the time because of the ground 's redevelopment , which has started with the construction of stands to replace the north and south terracing . |
| 30 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |