Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 2 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 3 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 4 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 5 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 6 | She was scarlet in the face and perspiring profusely by the time she entered the old gentleman 's room . |
| 7 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |