Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speaker appears to be generalising to a time which includes her own experience . |
| 2 | Order 7 , r 10(4) which provides that the date of service is deemed to be the seventh day after posting does not apply , and the summons is in this case deemed , by virtue of s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 , to be received in the time it would be delivered " in the ordinary course of post " . |
| 3 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 4 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 5 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 6 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 8 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |
| 9 | ‘ The gates of the city will be closed by the time we arrive , and wo n't be opened until morning . |
| 10 | Penelope thought it wiser not to point out that the Stores would certainly be closed by the time she got there , but felt she had done enough in showing her which bus to take . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't even be washed by the time you come down . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 13 | I certainly would n't coach it so I think you would be creased by the time you got there in two days . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 15 | MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this . |
| 16 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll be gone by the time you wake up in the morning . |
| 19 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 20 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 21 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |