Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian is Bunyan himself , leaving his wife and children , as he had done when he went to prison , to undertake the pilgrimage to everlasting life : the imagery is taken not only from the Bible but from the chapbooks and folktales which were sold by travelling hawkers in the Bedfordshire villages at the time . |
| 2 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 3 | In the early '60s , Selmer 's ( who had the distinction of distributing both Fender and Gibson guitars at the time ) used to have a lot of their Fenders sprayed here , owing to the differing tastes of British guitarists back then — the Shads ’ influence , I would think . |
| 4 | The Celts were pressing on the Macedonian frontiers at the time of Philip 11 and of Alexander the Great . |
| 5 | This is the ‘ Harvest Festival ’ scene , which was apparently found pretty banal by the Dresden critics at the time of the première . |
| 6 | A declaration by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz on a visit to Qatar in 1984 probably reflected the atmosphere of GCC deliberations at the time . |
| 7 | On Sunday mornings during the time of the spring and autumn ploughing , the horsemen often strolled around the parish to view one another 's work , estimating its quality with the eye for detail of an exacting sticker at a furrow-drawing match . |
| 8 | According to the Sunday papers of the time there was a ‘ twilight world ’ somewhere where gay vicars and school teachers and scout masters ‘ assaulted ’ their youthful charges . |
| 9 | A key element in both the Guildford and Birmingham prosecutions at the time of the original trials were confessions from the accused . |
| 10 | On release , the single went to Number Three in the US charts of the time , after which Mamie logged another seven Top Ten hits . |
| 11 | Even silver-screen George changes with the times when , after an entertaining accident in Rome , he re-emerges as a convertible with a Renault 4 bonnet . |
| 12 | Nor was he much impressed at the Liskeard inns of the times , or at least one : ‘ … a tavern of despair frowned amid congenial desolation ’ . |
| 13 | Vivienne — with Bernie backing her up as Malcolm was in the States , having extended his visit after striking up a rapport with The New York Dolls at the time — talked me into doing it . |
| 14 | In 1947 all the London dailies except The Times , Daily Mirror and Daily Worker printed large editions in Manchester , and the Daily Mail and Daily Express also printed in Scotland ( until 1966 and 1974 respectively ) . |
| 15 | Charles Booth also made reference to the large-scale absenteeism in London schools at the time of the hop harvest . |
| 16 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 17 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |