Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 2 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |
| 3 | The fact that most of them have already had their family by the time they commence the course is the most likely explanation . |
| 4 | The woman in the fun photos , a 24-year-old Briton , is said to have sold her story of the time she spent in Andrew 's company to an American magazine . |
| 5 | Er it 's a bit difficult coming on the end of a debate cos everyone 's nicked your speech by the time you get here . |
| 6 | Political propaganda on the part of the American Relief Administration , by far the longest foreign source of aid , warped its judgement at the time , and the subsequent polarization of Russian-American relations has not improved the objectivity of later scholarly accounts of the Famine as seen through American eyes . |
| 7 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 8 | But he had revised his view by the time he wrote A West-India Fortune ( 1950 ) : there , and in George III and the Politicians , the two approaches were fruitfully combined . |
| 9 | ’ Occasionally I look at my daughter , ’ Irina would say , ’ and wonder where she 's put her intelligence for the time being . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him . |
| 11 | ‘ The police have checked your tale about the time Connie disappeared ? ’ |