Example sentences of "been [adj] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 2 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 3 | As for Daedalus himself , he had been busy too at the time inventing the Greek alphabet in Cumae , on the other side of the peninsula . |
| 4 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |
| 5 | ‘ Had I been big enough at the time , I would have beaten his ass but I was n't . |
| 6 | It need have been irrelevant only at the time the edition of the digesta was made , which according to Schulz was in the late third century . |