Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 2 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 3 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 4 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 5 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 6 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 7 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |
| 8 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 9 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 10 | You have my sincere hope and prayers for a safe delivery out of your troubles , and which I fear not will be granted to you , and if I am not with you at the time you will have something to present to me when I do . ’ |
| 11 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 12 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 13 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 14 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 15 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 16 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 17 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 18 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 19 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 20 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 21 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |