Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for the time he 's already spent in cutody , that means Rachael could be freed this autumn . |
| 2 | No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there . |
| 3 | Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme . |
| 4 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 5 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 6 | This is what Dr Serafin is escaping from every time she pedals furiously to the station to catch the train to London ( one of those bicycles in the hall is hers ) with the portable typewriter lodged insecurely in the basket on the handlebars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 9 | At six months old , she 's already visited three mills — perhaps she will attend a formulation meeting by the time she 's two ? |
| 10 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 11 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 12 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 15 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 16 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 17 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 18 | LIFESPAN determines which processes take place at the terminal and which are carried out as background activities , largely depending on the time they will take to complete . |
| 19 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 20 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 21 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not talking about the time we spent in bed . |
| 23 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 24 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 25 | Roirbak was physically shaking by the time he 'd broken the connection with Jahsaxa . |
| 26 | In photographs I 'm already scowling by the time I 'm two : in an Argyle Street photographer 's studio , clutching a rubber doll , dressed in a tailored coat with a velvet collar and an enormous bow in my hair ; or paddling with my parents in the sea , somewhere off the coast of Ireland . |
| 27 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 28 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 29 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 30 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |