Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way .
2 Peter and Paul hope that by the time they are grown up , the doctors will know more about HC and how to stop it .
3 I hope that by the time you read this report we will have got several protests off the ground .
4 The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned .
5 Because they know that by the time he gets to court , he 'll be thrown out , and all the time will be wasted ,
6 Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland .
7 I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was .
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