Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 5 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 6 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 7 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The tailings lake now covered an area of 160 acres , of which only one acre had dried out at the time . |
| 14 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |