Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 2 | It is truly remarkable that , given the scant time for leisure , a fine appreciation of music and literature existed in certain isolated pockets of Baldersdale which Hannah was privileged to enjoy . |
| 3 | Given the enormous time , more than five minutes , it takes for each page this is very useful otherwise you might conclude that the whole machine has hung . |
| 4 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 5 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 6 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 7 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 8 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 9 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 10 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 11 | To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines . |
| 12 | This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done . |
| 13 | photocopied the same time as these and then you know we would have all had one for reference . |
| 14 | The lullabies and other songs are continued to soothe children , especially when they are in a bad mood ; but this age is considered the best time to teach the children how to use their hands in various spheres of tribal activities . |
| 15 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 16 | ‘ They have picked the wrong time to ask , ’ one member says . |
| 17 | Probably applied the same time I did . |
| 18 | Since her father had not stipulated the exact time when they were to ride , Artemis was dressed and in the stables at first light lest she miss her treat by being late . |
| 19 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 20 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 21 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 22 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 23 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 24 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 25 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 26 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 27 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 28 | . Said the first time she came round she did n't look at it , and then , after that she looked really I hope she does n't fall . |
| 29 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 30 | I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike . |