Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 2 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 3 | The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 4 | All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 5 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll have to be inside the spell and out of here into the Time Chariot so fast you could n't say ‘ caterpillar 's boots ’ , always supposing you wanted to say such a ridiculous thing , which I do n't suppose you do . |
| 7 | Do n't worry , I 'll have you out of here in no time . ’ |
| 8 | It did n't feel like much at the time , but I knew it was him . |
| 9 | Oh , it did , went on for up to the time I retired . |
| 10 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 11 | From now until the time of Magnus the Pious there are no Emperors and the lands becomes increasingly divided . |
| 12 | ‘ Ties in roughly with the time the vagrant jumped the train . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have to go in here for the time being . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Put your things in here for the time being , ’ she said , pushing open the door to the living-room . |
| 15 | - Buses in the morning and afternoon are suddenly full of children , traffic jams are caused by cars containing family groups and signs appear in tobacconists ' shops : ‘ Sorry , No More Than One Schoolchild In Here At A Time , Put Your Arms Up and Stand Against The Wall To Be Searched When Requested . |
| 16 | No , you were all in here at the time . |
| 17 | I mean , that was obviously put in here at the time that we did n't have anything that covered it . |
| 18 | I said , ‘ If you want somewhere to use , you can use my flat , just as long as there 's only one of you in there at a time . ’ |
| 19 | We had potatoes in there for a time but we had to keep hoeing all the weeds out . |
| 20 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 21 | It 's all in there in the Times . |
| 22 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 23 | The rain had set in steadily by the time Ruth got home . |
| 24 | Someone who flew to Britain , so they were over here at the time of the Sandra Riverton crime . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm just trying to remember that j Oh erm down on Road , here , where the vicarage is , it used to be a pub , because the vicarage were over here at once upon a time . |
| 26 | What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu . |
| 27 | The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor . |
| 28 | There seemed grounds for believing that the Thatcher government was , at least for a time , losing direction . |
| 29 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 30 | Far from wet blankets , even the most shrewdly commercial member of the Enterprise was touched , at least for a time , by unworldly enthusiasms . |