Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 32 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 33 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 34 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 35 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 36 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 37 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 38 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 39 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 40 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 41 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 42 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 43 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 44 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 45 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 46 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 47 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 48 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 49 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 50 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 51 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 52 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 53 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 54 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 55 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 56 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 57 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 58 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 59 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 60 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |