Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was well after nine by the time we got rid of them . ’ |
| 2 | For much of the time they slept and when she was n't sleeping Diana frequently visited the kitchens , the domain of ‘ Swampie ’ Marsh and fellow chefs . |
| 3 | For much of the time she was delirious , but there were lucid intervals , during which she was slightly comforted to understand that the nightmares that had tormented her were products of the disease and not of reality . |
| 4 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 5 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 6 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 7 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 8 | The period is 313 days , and the range from 5.4 to 10.5 , so that for much of the time it is out of binocular range . |
| 9 | Lear was doubtless unhappy during much of the time he worked for Gould ; he was also constantly unwell , often in desperate financial straits , and had been finding lithography an increasing strain on his eyesight and his nerves . |
| 10 | Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born . |
| 11 | It is past nine by the time we start to harness the dogs , and the sky is a little clearer , the temperature a little cooler . |
| 12 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |
| 13 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 14 | ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it . |
| 15 | Libby 's jersey felt rough on her arms after the bareness of summer , they wore wellington boots , not sandals , and the black rubber glistened with damp by the time they had crossed the field , disturbing the sleeping cows . |
| 16 | I thought he was kinda saying to that by the time she got round to saying it , it would n't mean as much . |
| 17 | That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough . |
| 18 | It was half-past two by the time I made it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did you go out of the room at all between the time you arrived and , say , a quarter to ten ? ’ |
| 20 | The fact that Hall 6 is a bare cavern with iron girders did n't matter at all by the time we had finished . |
| 21 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 22 | Get out at twelve By the time you 've had an hour in there swimming you know how busy when you 're swimming lengths what with the diving in . |
| 23 | Martia was aged twenty-two at the time we spoke to her and had two children : Sasha , sixteen months and Tanya , two months . |
| 24 | There are several Mira variables in Grus within binocular range when near maximum ( R , S and T ) , but for most of the time they are much too faint . |
| 25 | For most of the time it is out of binocular range , but when at its brightest it is easy enough to find , and binoculars of × 8 or higher power will show colour in it ; it is very red , and of spectral type S. |
| 26 | It has a period of 431 days , and a range of between 5.5 and 13 , so that for most of the time it is well below binocular range . |
| 27 | Like many M-type supergiants it is variable ; the official range is from 3.0 to 3.8 , but for most of the time it is comparable with Kappa Ophiuchi ( 3.2 ) which makes a convenient comparison star . |
| 28 | Apparently it means that while for most of the time I will behave normally I shall be prone to sudden ourbursts of rage and obscenity . |
| 29 | Although I do n't think I was mentally ill for most of the time I was anorexic , I find Lomas 's remarks illuminating in my own case and pertinent to anorexia nervosa in general . |
| 30 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |