Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time we made the acquaintance of a young Nigerian living in the town , and in due course his bride came to stay in our house until her marriage . |
| 2 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 3 | About the same time his second son Daniel [ q.v. ] , |
| 4 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 5 | At about the same time he helped to found the Liverpool Medical Library and the Liverpool Blind Asylum . |
| 6 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 7 | About the same time he defeated the Picts in battle . |
| 8 | About the same time he purchased Maisonette , a country house and grounds in Ingatestone . |
| 9 | In 1785 he won the competition for a public building in his native county of Angus , the town and county hall in Forfar ; at about the same time he secured the patronage of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v. ] , the most powerful man in Scotland , for whom he designed Melville Castle , Midlothian ( 1786–91 ) ; while his small number of English patrons included the collector Sir George Beaumont [ q.v. ] , to whose London residence he added a picture gallery ( 1790–2 ) . |
| 10 | Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team . |
| 11 | I mean that er shortly after it Molly was married at er Aye just a just before the war er broke out Molly was married , and Cathy got married during the war and I got ma er no The three of us got married just round about the same time you know . |
| 12 | About the same time I heard gunfire . |
| 13 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 14 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 15 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 16 | About the same time it was recommended that the church at Seagoe should be removed to Edenderry for the greater convenience of the parishioners , a suggestion not implemented . |
| 17 | When we teach pupils , in the same time we teach their parents . . |
| 18 | The money is automatically taken out of your current account in the same time it takes to clear a cheque , roughly three days . |
| 19 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 20 | But at the same time they looked sublimely elegant . |
| 21 | At the same time they remained , as we all remain , implicated in other kinds of discrimination of which they and we , originally and subsequently , are the agents rather than the victims , or maybe both agents and victims . |
| 22 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 23 | At the same time they wanted the money which I earned . |
| 24 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 25 | At the same time they are told they must shoulder bigger world responsibilities . |
| 26 | At the same time they have kept their support tepid enough not to threaten their pose as the Palestinians ' champion . |
| 27 | At the same time they implied a threat of punishment against the user if the coin was abused in some way . |
| 28 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 29 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 30 | At the same time they took responsibility for the home , ’ she says . |