Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This squirt of wheelspin which initiates the final turning phase is barely visible ; the turning is all over and done with by the time the speculator broadslides complete the rider 's acceleration out of the corner . |
| 2 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
| 3 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
| 4 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 5 | but people who can afford to pay for it will be , will be made to at the time |
| 6 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 7 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 8 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 9 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 10 | She wondered what ‘ period ’ he had been enraptured with at the time he 'd been here . |
| 11 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 12 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is known as by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
| 13 | In medieval times an effigy of the saint was met and escorted into the town by crowds of people , but this was frowned upon at the time of the Reformation and the effigy was replaced by a man dressed in white robes . |
| 14 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 15 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 16 | You know that was i i issued during during the time . |
| 17 | Mrs Whitehouse 's attitude to homosexuals and homosexuality , though , is somewhat more complex than was perhaps allowed for at the time . |
| 18 | Depends how many people you 're erm chef 's actually cooked for at the time . |
| 19 | It sought to reinvigorate the Church and enhance its spiritual life by bringing back into its service much of the ritual and many of the vestments , ornaments , etc. , that had been dispensed with at the time of the Reformation , BH 12 . |
| 20 | One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill-tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time . |