Example sentences of "[prep] [det] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company . |
| 2 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 3 | During this time they are given drugs thought to be effective against Alzheimers — which also causes memory loss and lack of attention — to assess their efficacy . |
| 4 | During this time they were also shown a reel of commercials for different brands , including one for Tetley round bags . |
| 5 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 6 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 7 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 8 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 9 | During this time they learn to live with a family and to behave well . |
| 10 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 11 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 12 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 13 | When bonds came on the market after this time they were sold quietly by the Bondholders Committee to members of the Club with a long term , proven interest in its affairs , who had either enquired about bonds or were offered them being regarded as suitable individuals . |
| 14 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 15 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 16 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 17 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so . |
| 21 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 22 | In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship . |
| 23 | In that time they were totally isolated from any contact with their parents , or with anyone else they knew or who cared about them . |
| 24 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 25 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 26 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 27 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 28 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
| 29 | Landing kicks on target has been Gloucester 's main weakness this season and when Roberts made it two out of two just before half time they must have thought their luck was changing . |
| 30 | Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today . |