Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [art] time [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 2 | We know nothing about its rulers , except for one about the time of the conquest , whose name began with the letter ‘ A ’ . |
| 3 | In this case to is required in order to represent the relation in time between the two positions of person involved here , one before the time of the infinitive 's event , the other at the beginning of its actualization . |
| 4 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 5 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 6 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 8 | Delaney and Forster reached Lawton who helped them one at a time into the boat . |
| 9 | Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane . |
| 10 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 11 | CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible . |
| 12 | The chorus is taken by people one at a time in a round |
| 13 | Down below , two points of red light appear , one at a time like a wink in reverse . |