Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time . |
| 2 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 3 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 4 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 5 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 7 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 8 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 9 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 10 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 11 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 12 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 13 | They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time . |
| 14 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 15 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 16 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 17 | After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time . |
| 18 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 19 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 20 | Brian Hopgood of Marsden Avenue , Irby , said he played for ADS Graphics in the first half but became a spectator when he was substituted just after half time . |
| 21 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 22 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 23 | The accident rate rose notably from that time ( Labour Research , 1987b ) — a rate not helped by BT 's cut in its safety officers which started in 1985 . |
| 24 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 25 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 26 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 27 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 28 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 29 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , no trials of efficacy were carried out at that time , and this is impossible to do now as the vaccination schedules are in such widespread use . |