Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the time of " in BNC.

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1 It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident .
2 The first degree of love in Ego Dormio shown by an unshakeable adherence to the teaching of the Church and necessary to every man " will be safe " ( 63.91 ) seems to be taken for granted by the time of the later text .
3 Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ .
4 If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future .
5 There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question .
6 He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash .
7 Stephen Reynolds , who was disqualified from driving at the time of the crash , is one of the first people to be convicted under the new charge .
8 I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? )
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