Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 2 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 3 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 4 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 5 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 6 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 7 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 8 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 9 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 10 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 11 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 12 | Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down . |
| 13 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 14 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 15 | In Newham the cost of services continued to rise slightly to the time of the third assessment , but in Ipswich they dropped back a little . |
| 16 | The tailings lake now covered an area of 160 acres , of which only one acre had dried out at the time . |
| 17 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |
| 18 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |