Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 2 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 3 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 4 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 5 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 6 | Anything longer than that erm it just depends really on the time of the erm your the time of the year or how many months you 've |
| 7 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 8 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 9 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 10 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 11 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 12 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 14 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 15 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 16 | Julie 's high-achieving life seemed as if it would continue on its upward curve with her two companies both doing well in a time of recession . |
| 17 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 18 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 19 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 20 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 21 | That 's what we really come back to every time . ’ |
| 22 | In the Kindron Valley part of the Garden of Gethsemane has been preserved with a number of very old olive trees which may even date back to the time of Jesus . |
| 23 | If you wish to apply for such a pass , please do so at the time or order , giving the following details and indicate whether or not your order is dependent on the allocation of a Vehicle Pass : Date required , Vehicle registration number , Vehicle type , Drivers ’ name or organisation , Number of persons with disabilities and total number of passengers . |
| 24 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 25 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 26 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 27 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
| 28 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |
| 29 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |