Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 2 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 3 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |
| 4 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 5 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 6 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 7 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 8 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 9 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 10 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 11 | She was unusually alert , for her health had deteriorated in the brief time since the upset of Theda 's near-dismissal . |
| 12 | His training had benefited from the extra time , he was assured by any superior who could spare the energy to talk to him , and indeed he was an expert radio operator and cipherist , who could also — in theory — kill , survive , and use a parachute . |
| 13 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |