Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 2 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 3 | Perhaps also the time has come to abandon content free systems and move towards the development of a knowledge-based program , using grid method but specifically designed to enhance the perception and appreciation of art . |
| 4 | I 'm very angry about all this and believe it 's long past the time when serious questions must be asked about this form of recruitment ’ . |
| 5 | Both these distinctions imply that registration in storage continues long past the time of reception of information . |
| 6 | Hazel , a Clerk in Private Trust and Taxation , Edinburgh , will fly to the USA in June — but she won ‘ t know her final destination or what type of work she will be doing until much nearer the time . |
| 7 | Perhaps nearer the time you could send details of the weekend course plus the costing for it . |
| 8 | The design emphasises the importance of creating a style which will define not only the time , place and action , but also the characters portrayed . |
| 9 | He was able to give her not only the time , but the state of the tide at every bridge on the river . |
| 10 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 11 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 12 | On 23 September 1954 Blake married his secretary Gillian Allan and on 14 April 1955 he was posted to West Berlin , just about the time that the Berlin tunnel became operational . |
| 13 | During the summer of 1988 , just about the time when the Clause was becoming law , an English gay novel was published to widespread acclaim . |
| 14 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 15 | Just about the time they had seen the signpost , the rain had started in earnest . |
| 16 | ‘ It was just about the time yer was gettin' married . |
| 17 | Once a nest was parasitised , mortality among the legitimate nest occupants was generally higher , especially just about the time that the minnows laid their eggs . |
| 18 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 19 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |
| 20 | Just about the time when a nome ought to be taking it easy . |
| 21 | Just about the time you 've admitted taking two hundred stolen notes from Jack 's wife . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Last Saturday night , just about the time you were with his wife at that party in Fulham . |
| 23 | Just about the time that Dougie started er building substantially in the town and doubled to population to its present six and a half thousand or so . |
| 24 | Secondly , is not now the time for the Government seriously to consider an independent inspection service for complaints because in many cases — pindown was one , Leicestershire is another and I understand that there may be further examples at Wrexham and Bangor — the local authorities are not the best bodies to investigate the complaints ? |
| 25 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 26 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 27 | I ca n't say I blame them — for many of us walking is about getting away from the crowds , and summer in the Lakes is not quite the time to do that . |
| 28 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 29 | Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 30 | ‘ What about sleeping-bag and tent and stuff ? ’ she asked , stalling frantically now the time was here . |