Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time I shall give you no set work , you are to take no services in English nor preach in English , your sole task will be to become competent in Burmese . |
| 2 | During that time he may mate with other females , and add the eggs to his collection . |
| 3 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 4 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 5 | During this time you will walk through workings some of which are over a hundred years old . |
| 6 | During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level . |
| 7 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 8 | During free time she would make sure everyone had sufficient to do . |
| 9 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
| 10 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 11 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 12 | But if Sweden go through this time we will try to arrange extra games . |
| 13 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 14 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 15 | It is generally around the age of 2½ years that the child begins to take an active interest in its peers — before that time it may play in their company but seldom plays with them . |
| 16 | Each exercise only lasts 15 seconds , and in that time you must complete as many repetitions as possible . |
| 17 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 18 | Landing kicks on target has been Gloucester 's main weakness this season and when Roberts made it two out of two just before half time they must have thought their luck was changing . |
| 19 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 20 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 21 | All in good time you will have a bed partner and let me tell you , you will care for her far more than you ever could for this one . |
| 22 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
| 23 | If you can get your book out in reasonable time I can see it being a real winner , and position-wise it wo n't do you any harm , that 's for sure . |
| 24 | Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite , will cooperate with the host , and may eventually merge into the host 's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all . |
| 25 | At that time we can respond by the greatest amount and at the greatest speed and we perceive it as being least difficult . |
| 26 | So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting . |
| 27 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 28 | At that time he will establish God 's kingdom for all to see . |
| 29 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 30 | ‘ At that time I would have done anything to finish the film . |