Example sentences of "[prep] the time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British film Genevieve ( 1953 ) was unusually piquant for the time because the old car 's destination was tacitly acknowledged to be a ‘ dirty weekend ’ in Brighton . |
| 2 | During the time since it was reviewed ( three years to the very month ) it has n't aged at all . |
| 3 | In addition , patients were questioned about their bowel habits ( stool frequency and stool blood ) during the time since their last evaluation and responses were recorded based on the most severe symptoms that the patient had experienced . |
| 4 | For the next half-hour , while everyone filtered back into the big hall , while the musicians struck up and people began to dance , she counted off the time until the bride and groom were scheduled to leave — and when she could leave herself . |
| 5 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 6 | I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985 . |
| 7 | Speakers looked at listeners 50 per cent of the time while speaking fluently compared with only 20 per cent of the time during hesitant speech . |
| 8 | That was when the little woman with the pencil in her hair came in and said that was the end of the time unless we wanted to extend it . |
| 9 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 10 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 11 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 12 | Their third LP Mush has spent ‘ 80 per cent of the time since its release in the indie Top 20 ’ , and the Arts Centre date is their last appearance in the UK before a 46-date tour of Europe which will be following by excursions to Japan and the U.S. |
| 13 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |
| 14 | Bill was seldom able to put together a consistent run of appearances in our 2nd Division seasons 1921–25 but , when he did play , his graft and pluck were always appreciated by our fans and the press of the time because Palace continually struggled in Division Two and the hard-working , tenacious attitude which Bill always showed was a valuable asset against powerful and more skilled opponents . |
| 15 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 16 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 17 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 18 | Maybe the men only operate as child carers for eight per cent of the time because of what women have done . |
| 19 | Yes , we go up on the Ridge most of the time because er we 've all got mountain bikes ; it makes it a bit more fun . |
| 20 | Talk of Sebastian , but not the financial problem he had left Leith with , occupied the remainder of the time until they had finished their meal . |
| 21 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 22 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 23 | I think that was a reflection of the time as well . |
| 24 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 25 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 26 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
| 27 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 28 | Proud of his own appearance and punctilious in all his social and religious observances , he was praised by the Spanish ambassador of the time as being |
| 29 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 30 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |