Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lane 1 of each gel contains DNA only , the remaining lanes contain samples incubated for the following time intervals : 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,20,25,30 , 40,50,60,90,120 min . |
| 2 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 3 | frank Connor , profiled in the Irish Times , relaxing at home with his wife Mary and his five-year-old daughter Kelly . |
| 4 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 5 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 6 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 8 | It came at the right time . |
| 9 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 10 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 11 | The firm flourished with the good times of the sixties and Cedric started the stationer 's as a speculation , but it at once did well . |
| 12 | Paul Newman , older , of course , and Steve McQueen arrived in the big time , too . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's confirmed to the Irish Times that some of this material was purchased through their rooms . |
| 14 | Yes , just happened at the wrong time . |
| 15 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 16 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 17 | We talked of the hard times after Independence , of how the old princess had refused to take the charity of the government . |
| 18 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 19 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 20 | Mare covered at the wrong time . |
| 21 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 22 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 23 | Yesterday 's hearing before Mr Justice Schiemann was on the issue of whether the claim fell within the legal time limit . |
| 24 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 25 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 26 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 27 | Christina disliked her nasal drawl , and said for the final time , ‘ Well , nice to have met you both . |
| 28 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 29 | Viscount Nigel-Constantine and the elderly Bishop Hugh of Lisieux waited until the agreed time and took ship , with decorum and in an atmosphere of surprising goodwill . |
| 30 | Of the 200,000 young people who responded to The Early Times Survey , 53pc thought Britain no longer needed a monarchy . |