Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for the time he 's already spent in cutody , that means Rachael could be freed this autumn . |
| 2 | Elf had arranged that Jackie take me around Monaco and the experience — of living through what a grand prix driver lives through every time he races — remains engraved on my mind . |
| 3 | Sir Matt writes of the time he became United 's manager , in 1945 : |
| 4 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 5 | No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there . |
| 6 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 7 | That is , it lives from the time it 's conceived and created , for some fifty or sixty years , it varies , and then the work dies . |
| 8 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 9 | Too flourishing , indeed , for the vicar , who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 12 | In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired . |
| 13 | Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme . |
| 14 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 15 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 17 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 18 | There is a real possibility that the newcomer is not only exhausted but possibly wounded by the time he has won the harem . |
| 19 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 20 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 21 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 22 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 23 | I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 25 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 26 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 27 | So , say as , say erm , say by the time you 're you 're probably , mm , I du n no , thirty . |
| 28 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 29 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 30 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |