Example sentences of "at the [noun] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bedwelty stood staring at the horses for some time , standing with her hand on her hips . |
| 2 | Postgraduate students are welcome to call at the Service at any time during their course and are encouraged to take advantage of the facilities offered as early as possible . |
| 3 | With no-one at the BBC at that time skilled enough in working latex rubber the masks were solid , ie : the mouths , cheeks , noses and eyes did not move . |
| 4 | He gazes at the ceiling for some time . |
| 5 | When when the strike first started , being in the summer months we needed quite a strong picket line to talk to the tourists , at various gates cos that was the main source of income at the quarry at that time . |
| 6 | IN THE early 1920s , one of the daughters of the Reverend Puxley who resided at the rectory at that time , was playing on the lawn , then separated from the road by a thick laurel hedge . |
| 7 | Hankin said Gill 's contract was cancelled because he knew the player had been unhappy at the club for some time . |
| 8 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 9 | This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics . |
| 10 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 11 | At the end of that time , working ceaselessly , he had been through every file in every office . |
| 12 | ‘ What would you do at the end of that time ? ’ |
| 13 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 14 | At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ . |
| 15 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 16 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 17 | At the end of that time he came back again . |
| 18 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 19 | At the end of that time the conscientious manager may well find it difficult to credit the evidence . |
| 20 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 21 | The intention was that , at the end of that time , the club would be Scottish champions . |
| 22 | At the end of this time Parliament would make a permanent religious settlement in consultation with a committee of divines who would represent various views . |
| 23 | At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace . |
| 24 | The employer may have a problem if the employee has not managed to sell the old property at the end of this time . |
| 25 | At the end of this time , the character will attack his fellow . |
| 26 | At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque . |
| 27 | Troops were deployed and a curfew imposed as the unrest continued into the third day ; at the end of this time 26 people were reported dead and over 500 had been arrested . |
| 28 | Graham rubbed his hands over his face then stared thoughtfully at the carpet for some time before finally looking up at Sabrina again . |
| 29 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 30 | Further , if one looks at the picture for some time , one generally finds , involuntarily , that what one sees changes frequently from a staircase viewed from above to a staircase viewed from below and back again . |