Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 3 | Therefore , by dismissing Peres at the time he did , Shamir made certain that he would retain the premiership whatever the outcome of the Knesset vote . |
| 4 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |
| 5 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 6 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 7 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 8 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |
| 9 | Turquoise had also reached China by the time of the Shang dynasty , when instead of enriching gold jewellery it was inset on ivory vessels and used to inlay bronze weapons in a kind of mosaic . |
| 10 | Uncle had a bitch called Jill at the time and they had puppies which we gave to the neighbours . |
| 11 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 12 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 13 | Critics accused Meciar , a former communist who had joined VPN at the time of the revolution , of using information from secret police files to intimidate political rivals and of acting unconstitutionally by making official foreign visits . |
| 14 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 15 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 16 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 17 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 18 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ He just could n't believe there was that much money in the world and it was coming to him , ’ said Sybil at the time . |
| 20 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |