Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 2 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 3 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 5 | But the reunion almost ended as soon as it started , for after chatting for a time and parting , Betty realised they had not exchanged phone numbers . |
| 6 | THE WAR of words over the John Birt affair intensified yesterday when the former managing director of the BBC , Bill Cotton , criticised six senior journalists within the corporation for writing to the Times backing Mr Birt . |
| 7 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 8 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |
| 9 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 10 | I was thinking of going round the time , but I shall go this afternoon , it 's |
| 11 | Such excursions spelled glamour and excitement for Fergie , something that the duke seemed incapable of providing at the time . |
| 12 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 13 | Hart was a great master printer and , as he had said of Charles , third Earl Stanhope [ q.v. ] , ‘ he did solid good to the Art of Printing at a time when help was sorely needed ’ ( Hart , Charles , Earl Stanhope , and the Oxford University Press , 1896 ) . |
| 14 | There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question . |
| 15 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 16 | They were destroying something we dreamed of owning and playing but had no prospect of affording at the time . |
| 17 | The technique of rotational coherence spectroscopy illustrates particularly well the advantages of working in the time , rather than the frequency , domain — even if some of its most useful applications move us away from the femtosecond world . |
| 18 | This structure of feeling is produced by a particular rhetorical device , providing an image which resonates with an unstated discourse about ‘ waves of black immigration swamping the British way of life ’ — a theme which Thatcherism was in the process of popularizing at the time . |
| 19 | As we went towards the platforms , I said , she 's frightened of seeming behind the times . |
| 20 | Entering one of the 104 spacious suites is like stepping into a time warp . |
| 21 | It 's like living on a time bomb ! |
| 22 | Alone with Guido in the little boat , she 'd felt a constant sense of danger , like sitting on a time bomb that might go off at any second . |
| 23 | Oxford University is n't renowned for moving with the times , but it 's taking this equal opportunities business really rather seriously . |
| 24 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 25 | Even these unpretentious , non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time ; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years . |
| 26 | He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash . |
| 27 | Stephen Reynolds , who was disqualified from driving at the time of the crash , is one of the first people to be convicted under the new charge . |
| 28 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 29 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 30 | Unless specifically agreed by us in writing at the time you make your booking , we can not accept any booking which is made conditional upon a special request being satisfied . |