Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 2 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 3 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 4 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 5 | At the time of utterance , four months before the time I am writing of , the beneficent lady speaks of the future , shall have her chance . |
| 6 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 7 | In fact , it can offer very considerable protection — against cancellation and losses from the time you leave home to your return . |
| 8 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 10 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 11 | One is attempting to discover what was the intention of the parties at the time they made the contract . |
| 12 | One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) . |
| 13 | Since lexicographers can only proof single entries at a time it is not envisaged that providing this space will cause a problem . |
| 14 | Richard Gough , for example , had 15 full caps by the time he was 19 . |
| 15 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 16 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 18 | I was on my knees by the time we unpacked the sandwiches and tried to find the energy to chew , and I recall making small high-pitched squeaking noises in reply to any attempt at a chat . |
| 19 | What happens to these potatoes between the time they are harvested and the time you buy them ? |
| 20 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 21 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 22 | She had regained her senses by the time she made her way back with his drink . |
| 23 | We are setting ourselves targets for the time we take to make decisions on papers submitted to us and then to publish the papers . |
| 24 | Yes , but you will appreciate that we begin to incur costs from the time we reserve your holiday and should you or any member of your party cancel your booking once it has been accepted , this must be in writing , signed by the person who signed the Booking Form . |
| 25 | I trust we shall be back in two years from the time we left England … |
| 26 | So much so that for weeks at a time I could live without eidetiking at all . |
| 27 | WizDom forms part of USL and Unix International 's distributed vision of the future , Atlas , where it lines up alongside OSF 's DCE , to which USL will add ‘ at least ’ half a dozen ready-to-run system management applications by the time it comes to market . |
| 28 | ‘ At this rate we 'll be millionaires by the time I 'm forty , ’ said Charlie with a grin . |
| 29 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 30 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |