Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his real home for part of the time he was Marje 's lover was with Meli Meitner in her Kensington apartment . |
| 2 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 3 | It was after midnight by the time he was able to continue his journey . |
| 4 | It was after noon by the time we actually got sorted , much to the annoyance of the lady from the Public Relations company who had hired us . |
| 5 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 6 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 7 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 8 | Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action . |
| 9 | The life of the camp consumed their married life , oppressed her from her hour of waking until the time she fell asleep . |
| 10 | Most men take less than six minutes from the time of entry to the time they ejaculate . |
| 11 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 12 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll be quite a good sort of person by the time you return from the Future , supposing you do return , of course , because I did n't like the sound of that spell , did you ? |
| 14 | If this is the case ( as would be revealed by questioning Mrs Wood ) than an important antecedent could be lack of supervision at the time he wakes up . |
| 15 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 16 | We were in a mild state of shock by the time we arrived at the bottom . |
| 17 | He was out of breath by the time he had canted her back , ground her round , settled the chair on the rough track again . |
| 18 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 19 | London-based Unix specialist , UniSoft Ltd , enjoyed a strong period of growth around the time it was engaged in developing an operating system for Motorola Computer Systems ' Unix boxes in the late 1980s . |
| 20 | Members can avail of the competitive terms of Autocover from the time they become qualified to drive . |
| 21 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 22 | I had a very good knowledge of Edinburgh by the time I was five . |
| 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 | ‘ I find that her refusal does not cover the emergency which has now arisen which was outside her contemplation and the contemplation of others at the time she expressed her opposition to a blood transfusion . |
| 25 | You 'll have a lot of headache by the time I 've finished . |
| 26 | It was near midnight by the time he rejoined me . |
| 27 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 28 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 29 | You do n't have to be witty or attractive or intelligent , you just have to be there with people for the time you 've stipulated . |
| 30 | Her body was still damp and the garment was too tight , so she was pink with exertion by the time she had managed to zip it up . |