Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Werewolf proceeded to try and blow all four stereo speakers and by the time he had the volume where he wanted it , and was playing along on his air guitar , we were through Sidcup and heading for the motorway .
2 Erm you get most of your you know you The amount of weight and height you put on from say , nought to six months and then six months to two months and by the time you 've got to about eight or something .
3 They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point .
4 Very soon this rigidity starts to restrict movements and by the time we reach old age we can barely get around .
5 Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse .
6 The FTC is also regarded as being reluctant to pursue high-tech companies because by the time it is brought and the issues resolved , the market has moved on .
7 Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) .
8 She was coming home for three whole weeks and by the time she left for London again the exam results would be nearly due .
9 The trip took three weeks and by the time she arrived , South Georgia had been recaptured .
10 He played for his County boys ' team at the tender age of 11 years and by the time he was 13 he was reserve for the England Boys International team against Scotland .
11 It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present .
12 Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books .
13 The former international , plagued by injury this season , was on the pitch for just 18 minutes but by the time he returned to the bench Holywood were home and dry .
14 Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard .
15 Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling .
16 She believed in fat babies and at the time I was born , during the war , little was known about nutrition or cholesterol , nor that heart attacks were preventable .
17 And we got a full of chocolates and sweets and by the time we put their sweets on the top as well , there 'll be lots and lots by for Christmas .
18 Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings .
19 Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings .
20 Not when it 's dark nights cos by the time I get home
21 It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe .
22 It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it .
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