Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time and " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again .
2 Well I can , if he lets me have his space we do n't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something .
3 But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother .
4 Dorothy , left in the bigger house , alone for a time and then , later , with Alice and Jasper , seemed to have fewer friends .
5 He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win .
6 He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win .
7 We all use them much of the time and could not do without them .
8 Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) .
9 Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) .
10 ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court .
11 Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool
12 I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that .
13 A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds .
14 If the new system does offer real advantages then peer-group pressure might take over after a time and accelerate the change-over .
15 Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened .
16 ‘ That is what Martin says ; he was some distance away at the time and was n't able to see who it was . ’
17 We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo …
18 I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’
19 slacken up in no time and
20 The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind .
21 This chapter investigates how that world appeared to the players and the lookers on , both at the time and afterwards .
22 Something was happening in Britain that allowed the period to be plausibly described , both at the time and later , as permissive .
23 Explanations both at the time and later have tended to point to assumptions about the lower needs of women , irrespective of the work they were doing .
24 It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts .
25 The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions .
26 She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again .
27 The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan .
28 Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness .
29 He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition .
30 David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did .
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