Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 2 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 3 | And I was half and half and by the time I you know , to come down to answer it mum , they 'd gone . |
| 4 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 5 | ‘ I also had four days to be nervous and by the time the big day arrived I was all nervoused out . |
| 6 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 7 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |
| 8 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 9 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 10 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 11 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 12 | The Socialist Workers ' formation heckle team numbered about five and by the time the egg-throwers had been apprehended , they were down to three . |
| 13 | I first saw Genesis around 1973 and at the time knew their music very well . |
| 14 | The mill purchased by from was built during 1973 and at the time of the take-over was producing around 70,000 tonnes a year . |
| 15 | The day was extremely hot and by the time Asik reached the river it was already very busy . |
| 16 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 17 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |
| 18 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 19 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 20 | She started work at 14 and by the time she found herself at Vons she 'd held a variety of jobs . |
| 21 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 22 | We did n't want to sell the house , but we 're both in our sixties and by the time the work is completed we 'll be in our seventies so we just have to bail out now . |
| 23 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 24 | It was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1841 and at the time it was acclaimed as an engineering masterpiece . |
| 25 | Work commenced in 1723 and by the time Pehr Kalm saw it , over twenty years later , a large collection of trees had become well established . |
| 26 | She had n't got free until nearly seven and by the time she had negotiated the traffic and turned towards her flat it was eight o'clock . |
| 27 | The first true Ferrari was seen at Piacenza in 1947 and by the time the World Championship was introduced in 1950 , Ferraris were soon gaining a reputation for being a reliable car . |