Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes it 's free ( or , to put it another way , you pay only for the time you access the system ) , at other times you pay per ‘ page ’ of information you read . |
2 | She still loved you , all through the time she was with me . |
3 | He will not feel able to leave , and so for a time he will strive to manage alone . |
4 | It was just after six , long after the time she should have gone off duty , and that was exactly what all the physiotherapists had done . |
5 | Well the o , well more or less from the time we got in she 's not gon na go back to that place |
6 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
7 | Right down to the time he was born . ’ |
8 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
9 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
10 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
11 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
12 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
13 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
14 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
15 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
16 | They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny . |
17 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
18 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
19 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
20 | He was already inside and sitting himself down by the time I spoke . |
21 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
22 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
23 | Most are speaking , walking and managing very nicely by the time they are three . |
24 | ‘ She trimmed up the north and east hedgerow quite nicely by the time I went up , Saturday lunchtime . |
25 | We have three separate heaps , side by side , so by the time we use the compost it is three years old , having been turned once each year . |
26 | So by the time we sit our exam we 'll have forgotten al , what we 've done ? |
27 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
28 | Ron normally allows his athletes two weeks off , so by the time I arrived back at West London Stadium they were well into winter training . |
29 | The atmosphere became charged within minutes of their arrival and the day was spent in frantic dashes , nerve-shattering band calls , fraught costume fittings and infuriating sound checks , so by the time I booked into my Albany Hotel suite at 6 o'clock I felt exhausted . |
30 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |