Example sentences of "[prep] [det] time [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 2 | During that time I shall give you no set work , you are to take no services in English nor preach in English , your sole task will be to become competent in Burmese . |
| 3 | During that time he may mate with other females , and add the eggs to his collection . |
| 4 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 5 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 6 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 7 | During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level . |
| 8 | During this time you will walk through workings some of which are over a hundred years old . |
| 9 | During this time you will also continue with your Naval general training , and spend time gaining practical experience in the wardroom and on assignment to an officer 's cabin . |
| 10 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 11 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 12 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
| 13 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 14 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 15 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 16 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
| 17 | If you have been away from nurse education for some time you will be very pleasantly surprised by the much more interactive and civilised approach to learning apparent in most schools and colleges of nursing . |
| 18 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 19 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 20 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 21 | But if Sweden go through this time we will try to arrange extra games . |
| 22 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 23 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 24 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 25 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 26 | If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so . |
| 27 | It is generally around the age of 2½ years that the child begins to take an active interest in its peers — before that time it may play in their company but seldom plays with them . |
| 28 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 29 | Each exercise only lasts 15 seconds , and in that time you must complete as many repetitions as possible . |
| 30 | It may recognise that once the youngest child has left home the wife may again be able to take up gainful employment but that until that time she should be provided with a home rent free . |