Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school .
2 Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage .
3 In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously .
4 The Co Armagh men were boating on Lough Lannagh in Co Mayo at the time .
5 His parents had settled in East Dulwich at the time of his registration for Battersea Polytechnic , Michael Joyce having by then cut his losses in building or ‘ architecture ’ and opened his grocer 's shop in this prosperous middle-class suburb .
6 Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences .
7 Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences .
8 Both also gave prominence to the fact that Blanche happened to be at TV London at the time of the murder and had taken charge of the case .
9 Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China .
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