Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 2 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 3 | It all adds up to a time consuming and often costly exercise . |
| 4 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 5 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 6 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 7 | I explain that this is due to an old charter , dating back to the time of Sir Hugo de Courcy Rune , third earl of Penge . |
| 8 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 9 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 10 | In the Kindron Valley part of the Garden of Gethsemane has been preserved with a number of very old olive trees which may even date back to the time of Jesus . |
| 11 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 12 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 13 | Thieves probably benefited from a certain popular tolerance which dated back to the time when individual thefts of cattle were a legitimate means of pursuing a dispute . |
| 14 | Much of the legislation harks back to the time when individuals were less readily identifiable than they are nowadays and so protection was necessary to ensure that foul play was not involved . |
| 15 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 16 | I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ . |
| 17 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 18 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 19 | One of the girls walked over to the time traveller and smiled a genuine welcoming grin . |
| 20 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |
| 21 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 22 | Their heritage can be traced back to the time of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC , when the Jews were taken captive into exile by the Babylonians . |
| 23 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 24 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 25 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 26 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 27 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 28 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 29 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |