Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer .
2 The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being .
3 But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute .
4 They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission .
5 We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed .
6 The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled .
7 Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried .
8 Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made .
9 He was out of breath by the time he had canted her back , ground her round , settled the chair on the rough track again .
10 At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England .
11 The West Stand will be out of commission at the time because of the ground 's redevelopment , which has started with the construction of stands to replace the north and south terracing .
12 Murrell , who was not going out with Gedge at the time , was surprised when the couple suddenly packed up , tore down their Wedding Present posters and left Leeds .
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