Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 2 | Critics accused Meciar , a former communist who had joined VPN at the time of the revolution , of using information from secret police files to intimidate political rivals and of acting unconstitutionally by making official foreign visits . |
| 3 | If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) . |
| 4 | The victim had become owner at the time of the deception . |
| 5 | When Two Left Feet was eventually released , critics pointed out that it had become dated , but there was general praise for the performances of Crawford and his two female co-stars , all of whom had been unknown when they made the film but had become names by the time it was shown in cinemas . |
| 6 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 7 | Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile . |
| 8 | This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 . |